Andrew Merton’s journalism and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Glamour, and Boston Magazine. His poetry has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Rialto, Comstock Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Louisville Review, The American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. He is the author of four books of poetry: Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs (with a foreword by Charles Simic) (Accents Publishing, 2012), Lost and Found (Accents Publishing, 2016), Final Exam (Accents Publishing, 2019) and Killer Poems (Accents Publishing, 2023. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire.