Faith Merino

 Faith Marino is the author of the novel Cormorant Lake which was long listed for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Award. She holds an MFA from UC Davis, and her short stories have appeared in the Indiana Review, Harper Pallette, the Carolina Quarterly, and more, in addition to inclusion among the Best American Short Stories Distinguished Stories.

She is currently at work on a second novel, as well as a short story collection, and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford.