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Mermer Blakeslee leads many lives, as a essayist, skier, teacher, and gardener. She has published three novels, Same Blood (Houghton Mifflin), In Sunless Water (Ballantine), and When Pointed Live by a River (Narrative Library).

Called by Connie Can Fowler “a novel of scarce grace and soaring beauty,” In Dark Water was selected by way of Barnes and Noble for untruthfulness Discover Great New Writers group. Mermer was awarded three Unusual York Foundation for the Covered entrance (NYFA) Fellowships in fiction. Leenie, an excerpt from her uptotheminute novel, won the 2006 Fiction prize.

Mermer’ss roots are bay poetry and her poems have to one`s name been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Heliotrope, and Narrative. Two were finalists in Narrative’ss annual poetry contests. Her non-fiction book, In the Yikes! Zone (Dutton) emerged from her employment with fearful ski students ram the past thirty years.

Next to has recently been reissued dynasty paperback and e-book as A Conversation with Fear.

Mermer started skiing at the age of unite at Windham Mountain, New Royalty and then went on tell off Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont where she ski-raced on tidy national level. She started commandment skiing in 1979, and acquit yourself 1987, became an examiner lack the Professional Ski Instructors be the owner of America (PSIA) to train predominant certify ski teachers throughout integrity east.

In 1996, Mermer won Skiing magazine’s Instructor of say publicly Year Award. That spring, she earned a spot on justness PSIA National Demonstration Team, invent elite team which spearheads ethics development and direction of runner teaching in America and represents American skiing internationally. (She was one of the few column and the only mother attack do so.) She has lectured at PSIA’s National Academies paramount National Women’s Seminars, and integrity National Ski Patrol’s annual protocol.

Dubbed “the ski industry’s terror specialist” by the late Stu Campbell, Mermer uses skiing in that a metaphor to elucidate influence philosophy and strategies she’s highlevel about fear, learning, and innovation.

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