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

• 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,
  ISBN 0-9761612-2-2
• The Bark of the Dog, Flood Editions, Chicago 2010
  ISBN 978-0-9819520-5-5
• Harpsichord Hills, Horse Less Press, Grand Rapids, MI, 2013
• Red Mavis, Flood Editions, Chicago 2014
  ISBN 978-0-9838893-7-3
• Would-be Dogwood, Shirt Pocket Press Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
• Old River, New River, Red Dragonfly Press, Northfield, MN, 2019
  ISBN 978-1-945063-25-1

• Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains, Pruett | Vintage | Bison, 1988 | 1990 | 2003
• Burnt House to Paw Paw: Appalachian Notes, Hard Press, West Stockbridge, MA, 1997
• Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains, Johnson Books, Boulder, 1998
• Rivers & Birds, Johnson Books, Boulder, 2003
• The Warbler Road, Flood Editions, Chicago, 2010
  ISBN 978-0-9819520-4-8

• Sworn Before Cranes, Crown, New York, 1994
• Grasshopper Falls, Hanging Loose, Brooklyn, 2000
• Talk Across Water, Flood Editions, Chicago, 2019

Drawings

• Distant Rivers, Prairie Rose Press, Muscatine, IA, 2013

Interviews

• Chicago Review, Winter, 2013
• L’Art du paysage, vol. 7, "Motifs du Paysage Nord-American," Vincent Dussol, Paris, 2014
• The Believer, "An Interview with Merrill Gilfillan", Martin Riker, April 18, 2019

Awards

• 1967, Major Hopwood Award for poetry, University of Michigan
• 1989,
  PEN
  /Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Magpie Rising
• 1998, Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction for Chokecherry Places ^[3]

References