Lorraine Duffy Merkl's Biography
Member Info
New York, New York
Since 1988
Apr 2010
Lorraine Duffy Merkl is a published author, freelance journalist and advertising creative director/copywriter for print, television, radio and interactive media in New York City. Her debut novel, Fat Chick, was published by The Vineyard Press in 2009. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies It All Changed In An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by the Famous and Obscure and It's All Relative: Mothers & Daughters She also writes a bi-monthly column -- "New York Gal" - for Manhattan Media's Our Town and West Side Spirit newspapers. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Post, Adweek, Big Apple Parent, MomSense, The Writers' Journal, Divinecaroline.com, New York Press, More.com, Bitch magazine, New York Family and the Huffington Post. Among various awards, Ms. Duffy Merkl counts a Broadcast Design Award honoring work done for HBO, and the Erma Bombeck Humor Writer Award for her column. In her freelance advertising career she specializes in entertainment marketing.
Influences
David Mamet Richard Price Harper Lee
Upcoming Works
I write the New York Gal column http://ourtownny.com/category/op-ed/columns/new-york-gal/ in Manhattan Media's Our Town and West Side Spirit newspapers www.ourtownny.com and the Mommy In The Middle column for Care.com http://blog.care.com/featured-columnists/mommy-in-the-middle/
Recommended Links
Publishers
The Vineyard Press
About Lorraine
Lorraine Duffy Merkl is a published author, freelance journalist and advertising creative director/copywriter for print, television, radio and interactive media in New York City.
Her debut novel, Fat Chick, was published by The Vineyard Press in 2009....
Causes Lorraine Merkl Supports
The Legal Aid Society
The Inner-City Scholarship Fund
Lorraine’s Favorite Books
Breakfast at Tiffany's Anywhere I Hang My Hat The Seamstress Living Well is the Best Revenge Lush Life
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