Sebastian Merrill is an award winning poet and a yoga instructor.

His debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press and was named a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book - Barbara Gittings Literature Award by the American Library Association.

Sebastian stands in front of stone wearing a black motorcycle jacket and a black sweater. He gazes at the viewer and wears his hair down, buzzed on one side and long on the other.

photo by Beowulf Sheehan