Andrew Merton is a journalist, essayist, and poet. Publications in which his work has appeared include Esquire, Ms. Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, and the Boston Globe. His book Enemies of Choice: The Right-to-Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion, was published by Beacon Press in 1981. His poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rialto, Comstock Review, Louisville Review, Vine Leaves, the American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. (If he were to found a literary review, he would call it Elsewhere.) Merton's first book of poetry, Evidence that We are Descended from Chairs, with a foreword by Charles Simic (Accents Publishing, 2012), was named Outstanding Book of Poetry for 2013-2014 by the New Hampshire Writers' Project. His books of poetry Lost and Found (2016) and Final Exam (2019) were also published by Accents Publishing. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire.
