Merrie Haskell was born on April 10, 1975. She has lived all over the state of Michigan, from Sault Ste. Marie to Ann Arbor, though she spent the majority of her childhood in Durham, North Carolina. She returned north to the Residential College of the University of Michigan to earn a degree in anthropology. She now lives in Saline, MI, with her husband and stepdaughter.
Merrie wrote her first story at the age of seven but she didn't start rigorously submitting stories until she was twenty-seven. Since then, her fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and Electric Velocipede, and is forthcoming in Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction and Nature.