The ESWA Community Mourns the Passing of Longtime Member
George Merrill was a wonderful essayist, teacher and editor. For many years he served as the nonfiction editor at the Delmarva Review and led workshops at the Bay to Ocean writers conference. He was an early member of the Working Writers Forum, the original writing critique group organized with ESWA support. Many people got to know George through his regular columns published in the Spy online magazine. Toward the end of his life he wrote a series of honest, moving, and often uplifting columns on the process of dying. George was a warm and generous man, filled with optimism and compassion and a never-failing wonder at the world he inhabited. He will be greatly missed.