S.B. Merrow grew up in New England and lives in Baltimore. She is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Everyone A Bell, published by Kelsay Books. Her chapbook Unpacking the China won the QuillsEdge Press chapbook competition in 2016. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Salamander, Nimrod International Journal, Passager, Panoply, The Courtship of Winds, Naugatuck River Review, Gyroscope Review, and Free State Review, and she has published essays in The Flutist Quarterly, a trade magazine. In addition to writing poetry, she restores and repairs concert flutes for professional flutists.