Merrill Gilfillan

Merrill Daniel Gilfillan (born 14 May 1945) is an American writer of poetry, short fiction, and essays.

Life and work Gilfillan was born and raised in Mount Gilead, Ohio, where his outdoorsman father (Merrill C. Gilfillan) worked as a naturalist for the state's Department of Natural Resources and helped inspire an early fascination with the natural world and its creatures. Gilfillan graduated in 1967 from the University of Michigan. He attended the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop for two years, studying with Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo, and George Starbuck, among others. He lived and worked in New York City for eight years and then moved to Colorado, which served as a base for frequent expeditions to the Great Plains and other regions of America from which he reports in essays, poetry, and short stories. He now lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Books Poetry Truck, Angel Hair Books, New York, 1970 9:15, Doones Press, Bowling Green, OH, 1970 Skyliner, Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1974 To Creature, Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1975 Light Years: Selected Early Poems, Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1977 River through Rivertown, The Figures, Great Barrington, MA, 1982 Coppers and Blues, Plum Pit, Boulder, 1997 On Heart River, Dayo, Denver, 1995 Satin Street, Moyer Bell, Wakefield, RI, 1997 The Seasons, Adventures in Poetry, New York | Boston, 2002 Small Weathers, Qua Books, Jamestown, RI, 2004 Undanceable, Flood Editions, Chicago, 2005 Selected Poems 1965-2000, Adventures in Poetry,