Jeredith Merrin is the author of two collections of poems, Bat Ode (2001) and Shift (1996), both from the University of Chicago Press. Her criticism includes the book An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the Uses of Tradition (Rutgers, 1990). Her poems can be found in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Ms., and The Paris Review. She is an emeritus professor at the Ohio State University.

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