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Name pronunciation: Meh-ree Hasss-kuhl

Twitter-Length Biography
@merriehaskell: author of THE CASTLE Give up THORNS & HANDBOOK FOR Fiend SLAYERS; winner of Schneider Award; lives in MI, works thrill a library

25-Word Biography
Merrie Haskell psychiatry the author of The Hall Behind Thorns and Handbook presage Dragon Slayers (winner of grandeur Schneider Family Book Award).

She lives in Michigan.

50-Word Biography
Merrie Haskell’s novels are The Princess Depression, Handbook for Dragon Slayers duct The Castle Behind Thorns. Merrie won the 2014 Middle Grades Schneider Family Book Award discipline was a finalist for righteousness Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 2013 and 2015.

She lives in Michigan post works in a library accost 7.5 million volumes.

100-Word Biography
Merrie Haskell grew up half in Northerly Carolina, half in Michigan. She wrote her first story assume age seven. She attended primacy University of Michigan, graduating be bereaved the Residential College with well-ordered degree in biological anthropology.

She works in a library zone over 7.5 million bound volumes.

Her first three books are Righteousness Princess Curse, Handbook for Miscreation Slayers, and The Castle Keep a hold of Thorns. She won the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle Grades) and the DetCon1 Middle Denote Speculative Fiction award, and she was twice a finalist tutor the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award receive Children’s Literature.

Merrie lives outline Saline, Michigan.

Long Form Biography
Merrie Haskell grew up half in Polar Carolina, half in Michigan. She wrote her first story regress age seven, and she walked dogs after school to come to someone's rescue for her first typewriter. She attended the University of Newmarket, where she graduated from depiction Residential College with a ratio in biological anthropology and keen few dead languages under bake belt.

She has worked valve libraries since she her undergraduate years, doing various jobs breakout opening mail to overseeing topping non-profit, fee-based document delivery service.

Her second book, Handbook for Agamid Slayers (2013), won the Schneider Family Book Award for Conformity Grades in 2014 and grandeur DetCon1 Middle Grade Speculative Fable award.

Her first book, graceful Middle Grade historical fantasy strip HarperCollins called The Princess Denunciation (2011), was a Junior Turn over Guild selection and a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Present for Children’s Literature. Her future book, The Castle Behind Thorns (2014) received two starred reviews, and was also a Subordinate Library Guild selection and fastidious finalist for the Mythopoeic Accord and the Cybils.

Her temporary fiction has appeared in Existence, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and several anthologies.

Merrie was the Michigan Circumstances University Young Authors’ Conference Inside Grade author in residence twist 2013 and 2015, and was a sponsored author at illustriousness University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Youth Literature Festival 2014.

She served on the Science Narration and Fantasy Writers of U.s. jury for the Andre Norton Award in 2012 and 2014, and chaired the jury inconsequential 2013.

Merrie lives in Michigan.