Allison Hong Merrill

Allison Hong Merrill is a Taiwanese immigrant and the author of the multi-award-winning memoir, Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops. She holds an MFA in writing 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. Allison is an instructor, a keynote speaker, and a panelist at various writer’s conferences. She also appears on podcasts, in TV shows, magazines, and journals. Visit her at: allisonhongmerrill.com to sign up for her short monthly email.