Website: allisonhongmerrill.com

Twitter Username: @xieshou

Publications

• Two Pioneers, Two Centuries Apart , Ensign Magazine (August 2011)
• Connor Thredhold , Liahona Magazine (March 2015)

Awards

• National Champion in Life Story Writing Contest. Taipei, Taiwan(2010)
• Honorable Mention in Memoir/Personal Essay Category. Writer's Digest 79th Annual Writing Contest(2010)
• Third Place in First Chapter Contest. LDStorymakers Writer's Conference (2015)
• Finalist in Memoir Discovery Contest. Serendipity Literary Agency(2014)
• Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction Inaugural Winner(2020)
• MAST People of Earth writing contest Grand Prize winner(2019)
• Segullah Journal writing contest first place winner(2019)

Employment

• Editor at Dialogue Journal

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Chinese from Brigham Young University (April 2013)
• Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (January 0)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction