Merrill Feitell (’93), author of Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes (Iowa Short Fiction Award Winner), served on faculty in the MFA program at University of Maryland and has taught fiction writing at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, SUNY Purchase, Colorado College and Cal State San Bernardino. Merrill’s fiction has appeared in many publications, including Best New American Voices and has earned her fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Taos Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Bethesda Writers’ Center, which named her an Emerging Writer Fellow.