Mermer Blakeslee was born, raised, and still lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
[1] She has written two novels, Same Blood (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) and In Dark Water (Ballantine, 1998); the latter was selected by Barnes & Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series.
She is also the author of the nonfiction work In the Yikes!
Zone: A Conversation with Fear (Dutton, 2002).
Blakeslee received three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in fiction and the 2006 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine for her story “Leenie.”