Mermer Blakeslee is the author of three novels, Same Blood (Houghton Mifflin), In Dark Water (Ballantine), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and When You Live by a River, an excerpt of which won the Narrative Prize. Drawing on her work with fearful students as a professional ski teacher, she wrote A Conversation with Fear (formerly In the Yikes! Zone, Dutton). She was awarded three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Blakeslee was born, raised and still lives in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
