With more than 10 years of talk therapy under her belt, Merissa has waded through life’s dilemmas with a constant reflective therapeutic bird on her shoulder. Add a few rabbis, a Buddhist-inspired education, monks, stupas, shrine rooms and the like, stir, and you get a ” title=”here”>here to find out.)
In May of 2008, Merissa graduated with an MFA in Writing and Poetics from ” title=”Santa Fe Art Institute”>Santa Fe Art Institute and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.