John H. Merriweather (born 1978, Portland, Oregon) is an American novelist and essayist whose work explores craftsmanship, exile, and memory. He studied architecture at the University of Washington before earning an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A former Fulbright fellow in Florence, he has translated contemporary Italian poets and apprenticed briefly with a marble yard in Pietrasanta. His stories and criticism have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and The Believer. He has held residencies at MacDowell and the Bogliasco Foundation, and received an Oregon Arts Commission fellowship. Merriweather has taught writing at Reed College and, later, at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He lives between New York City and Florence with his partner, the pianist Eva Sorrentino, and their dog, Piero.
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