Meryl Truett is a photographer and mixed media artist based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2003, and she has received numerous awards, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. 

Meryl’s work has been featured in Oxford American, Art Papers, Darkroom Magazine, Petersen’s Photographic, Camera Austria, The Vanderbilt Review, SCAD Alumni Magazine, Home: Miami, deep, Skirt!  Paprika Southern, and South Magazine.  Her books include Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, an anthology of fine-art photographs depicting the quirkier side of southern living, and Vernacular Highway: The Road Less Traveled. Her handmade book, Relics, Ruins, and Artifacts, was created in 2014. 

Meryl’s photographs are included in public and private collections, most notably, the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Telfair Museum of Art-Jepson Art Center, Savannah, GA; BellSouth Corporation, Vanderbilt University, Savannah College of Art and Design, and the University of South Carolina. She has extensive experience teaching at the college level and conducting photography, mixed media, and book publishing workshops.