Meryl Branch-McTiernan is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Her debut novel, What You Should Worry About, was released by Akashic Books in June of 2026. She cowrote and produced the comedy feature, Katie’s Mom, which won the Audience Award for Fusion Features at the 2023 Dances with Films festival. Her short fiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Southampton Review. She received her BS in Television, Radio, and Film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University. She lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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