Like their own parents, Meridel Kahl's parents were born and raised on farms near Prairie Farm. When her father re-enlisted in the Army after his service in WWII, their lives changed. His career took the family to Germany for two tours of duty, to Japan, and to cities across the U.S. Whenever there was a stateside assignment, the family took a summer road trip from wherever they were, in Virginia, Michigan, or Ohio, to spend two weeks in Chippewa Falls (Wisconsin) and Prairie Farm. Meridel remembers these visits as happy times spent with her grandfather, aunts and uncles, cousins, and family friends. After graduating from college, she taught high school English for eighteen years in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. She spent the last twenty-seven years of her career teaching in the Education Department at The College of St.

Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, and retired from there in 2013. She always considered herself to be an appreciator of literature, not a creator of it. That all changed after she retired and was introduced to the joys of writing poetry-she's been writing it ever since. She's grateful for the inspiration she receives from the many moods of Lake Superior and for the friendship and encouragement of fellow poets. Her poems have appeared in Writers Read, The Talking Stick, The Peninsula Pulse, Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior, The Thunderbird Review, The Avocet, Bramble, Leaves of Peace and Bringing Joy.