Merridawn Duckler is a poet and text-based installation artist and member of Blackfish Gallery, an artist collective in Portland, Oregon. Author of Interstate (dancing girl press) Idiom (Harbor Review) Misspent Youth (rinky dink press). Text in performance at LACMA, LACE, Phoenix Art Museum. Beulah Rose poetry prize Smartish Pace, CNF prize Invisible City, judged by Heather Christle, Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award Woven Tale Press, judged by Ann Beattie, Drama prize Arts and Letters Journal. She’s an editor at Narrative and at the philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics.