A native of Northern New England, Merle Drown has written stories, essays, plays, reviews, and two novels, Plowing Up a Snake and The Suburbs of Heaven. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire Arts Council and teaches in Southern New Hampshire University's M.F.A. program. The father of three sons, he lives with his wife Teresa Ceballos in Concord, New Hampshire, and Toronto