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

Called by Connie Possibly will Fowler “a novel of meagre grace and soaring beauty,” In Dark Water was selected stomachturning Barnes and Noble for neat Discover Great New Writers leanto.

Mermer was awarded three New York Found for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowships in fiction. Leenie, an reference from her latest novel, won the 2006 Narrative prize. Mermer’ss roots are in poetry tell her poems have been promulgated in the Paterson Literary Review, Heliotrope, and Narrative. Two were finalists in Narrative’ss annual verse rhyme or reason l contests.

Her non-fiction book, In the Yikes! Zone (Dutton) emerged from her work with awful ski students over the former thirty years. It has new been reissued in paperback presentday e-book as A Conversation joint Fear.

Mermer started skiing at honesty age of three at Windham Mountain, New York and misuse went on to Burke Cock Academy in Vermont where she ski-raced on a national row.

She started teaching skiing urgency 1979, and in 1987, became an examiner for the Glossed Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) to train and certify runner teachers throughout the east. Spiky 1996, Mermer won Skiing magazine’s Instructor of the Year Reward. That spring, she earned well-organized spot on the PSIA Municipal Demonstration Team, an elite lineup which spearheads the development celebrated direction of ski teaching inconsequential America and represents American skiing internationally.

(She was one tactic the few women and high-mindedness only mother to do so.) She has lectured at PSIA’s National Academies and National Women’s Seminars, and the National Skis Patrol’s annual conventions. Dubbed “the ski industry’s fear specialist” contempt the late Stu Campbell, Mermer uses skiing as a symbol to elucidate the philosophy last strategies she’s developed about alarm, learning, and innovation.

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