Malcolm Merrick (born 1983) is a British-Canadian novelist and former sound archivist. Raised in Bristol, he studied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and audio preservation at Goldsmiths before spending seven years cataloging endangered dialects for public radio archives. His debut collection, Salt Catalog (2011), was followed by the novel The Lilt Index (2016), which earned regional prize nominations and a devoted readership for its blend of lyric prose and speculative realism. He has taught community workshops on narrative acoustics in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he now lives with his partner and an elderly rescue dog. When not writing, he volunteers digitizing oral histories for small museums along the Atlantic coast.
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