Merridawn Duckler

Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute

Merridawn Duckler is a senior fellow at the Attic Institute, a prominent teacher of  fiction and nonfiction, and a leading member of our Individual Consult Group.

She has published in Carolina Quarterly, Georgia State Review, and Main Street Rag among others with current work in Isotope, Green Mountains Review, Narrative and Night Train. A former Attic student, she is a two-time winner of Society of Professional Journalists Award and was nominated for Best Creative Non-Fiction Anthology 2009 and a Pushcart Prize. Reviews of her work have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Her original scripts have been preformed at the NOW Festival at Red Cat at Disney Hall and other venues in Los Angeles, Stanford, & New York in conjunction with the performance troupe Collage Dance Theatre of Los Angeles. She has been in residency at Centrum, Caldera, and Yaddo, among others. She was a non-fiction runner-up at Writers@Work in Salt Lake City and has won fiction fellowships to the Squaw Valley Writers Community, Wesleyan Writers conference, and Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has been teaching at the Attic Institute since 2002 and is an Associate Editor at Narrative magazine.