Work

Awards:

1956 Winner of the National League of American PEN Women Award for Best Book of Poetry Award (for The Greatest of These)
1961 Lyric Foundation Citation and Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry
1965 Beaudoin Gemstone Award for Poetry

Books:

General Collections
Halfway up the Sky (1957)
Petals of Light (1965)
Because It’s Here (1970)

Devotionals
The Greatest of These (1954)
Think About These Things (1956)
In Green Pastures (1959)
Blessed Are You (1961)
The Mercies of God (1963)
Every Good Gift (1968)

Children’s Collection
All Daffodils Are Daffy (1967)

All books published by Abingdon Press, Nashville Tennessee

Biography:

Sarah Jorunn Oftedal, A Window on Eternity: The Life and Poetry of Jane Hess Merchant, Abingdon Press, 1989.