Jay Merrill

Jay has fiction in forthcoming or recent issues of 3 AM Magazine, Berfrois, Crannóg Magazine, The Galway Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Literary Orphans, The Prague Revue, Prairie Schooner, SmokeLong Quarterly and Story Shack.She is the author of two short story collections – God of the Pigeons (Salt, 2010) and Astral Bodies (Salt, 2007) and has been nominated for the Frank O’Connor Award and Edge Hill Prize. Her story ‘As Birds Fly’ won the Salt Short Story Prize and is included in the ‘Salt Anthology of New Writing, 2013’. Jay has an Award from Arts Council England and is Writer in Residence at Women in Publishing.