Elishia Merricks

Audiobook Producer & Writer

Based in NYC, but UK grown, Elishia Merricks is an award-winning Producer with Macmillan Audio. With a Bachelors in Drama & Theater Studies and a Masters in Applied Theater, Elishia heavily relies on her Theater and academic background when producing each book. Her combined love of literature and the performing arts naturally led to her work with audiobooks and she strives to build an authentic connection between the text, the narrator, and the listener.

She produced the 2024 Audie Award winner in the Thriller category, ALL SINNERS BLEED by S.A. Cosby, narrated by Adam Lazarre White, and the 2026 Audie Awards winners for the YA category, Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray, narrated by January JaVoy, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, and Major Curda, and the Sci-Fi category, Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer, narrated by Ray Porter, Marin Ireland, Stephanie Sheh. She also produced the audiobook THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN) by Sly Stone and Bend Greenman, narrated by Dion Graham, winning the inaugural LA Times Book Prize for Outstanding Production in Audiobooks.