Allison Hong Merrill

Allison Hong Merrill

Allison Hong Merrill is a first-generation Taiwanese immigrant and the author of the multi-award-winning memoir, Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes in both Chinese and English, both fiction and creative nonfiction, which means she spends a lot of time looking up words on Dictionary.com. Her work has won both national and international literary awards. Visit her at: allisonhongmerrill.com to sign up for her monthly email.