Cheryll Merrill's work appears in Fourth Genre, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Adventum, among other publications. “Singing Like Yma Sumac” was a 2005 Best ofBrevity and appeared in Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, 10th< Edition. “Trunk,” received a 2008 Pushcart Special Mention. She is at work on Larger than Life: Living in the Shadows of Elephants.