Lucy Mercer’s first collection Emblem (Prototype, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. She is co-editor of Too Little/Too Hard, a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value, to be published by Peninsula Press in 2026, and her nonfiction essay on wax and mortality, Afterlife, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
