Merimee Moffitt

Merimée says, "I've been scribbling down words ever since dropping out in 1964 from Reed College. I write poems because they are shorter, prose because I love to go deep into the little squiggles. I write because I have a head full of words and they demand utilization. I love to write poems and creative non-fiction. My memoir is a collection of stories from a particular slice of time--the 60s."

Having had a career of teaching writing (and mathematics) in middle and high school and at CNM, a community college in Albuquerque, Merimée has also done workshops and public classes for years, including but not limited to SWWriters, Open Space classes, a Women of the World Slam Poetry workshop held in ABQ recently, classes at the Source, the NM Poetry Society, and various elementary and high schools.

She has performed poetry at Fixed and Free, a reading she co-founded, the Range in Bernalillo, the Duende Series in Placitas, the summer readings at Elena Gallegos Open Space. the Curious Fox Bookstore in Berlin, Germany, and the public library in Waldport, Oregon, to name a few. She co-edited The Rag for four years and simultaneously co-hostied Duke City Dimestories, the only prose open mic in town. Her publications include local and national journals and reviews such as El Malpais, Mas Tequila Review, Fourth Genre, The Times They Were A’Changin Anthology,’ Pemmican, Santa Fe Literary Review, NM Literary Review, and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and a new series of anthologies called Poets Speak While They Still Can. She has four books available, Making Little Edens (poetry), and Notes on Addiction: An ABC of Addiction; her memoir, Free Love, Free Fall: Scenes from the West Coast Sixties (NM/AZ Finalist; and a new volume co-authored with her friend Georgia Santa Maria, called Berlin Poems and Photography(NMPress Women awarded NFPW). She is currently blogging about the 60s on her website merimeemoffitt.com, and about her new works and activities.