The Children’s Crusade, Ann Packer, Scribner — From a young age Ann Packer knew what it meant to be a writer. Her mother was a fiction writer and was a professor at Stanford.
Ellen Birkett Morris
Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, judged by Lan Samantha Chang, published by CSU Press. She is also the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award and finalist for the Clara Johnson, IAN and Best Book awards. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, among other journals. She is a winner of the Bevel Summers Prize for short fiction. Morris is a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship for her fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council.
Morris is also the author of Abide and Surrender, poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in The Clackamas Literary Review, Juked, Gastronomica, and Inscape, among other journals, and in eight anthologies. Morris won top prize in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition and was a finalist for the 2019 and 2020 Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Her poem “Abide” was featured on NPR’s A Way with Words. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, Oh Reader magazine, and on National Public Radio.
Morris holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University-Charlotte.
https://www.ellenbirkettmorris.com/
Finding Unity Amid Diversity in Garden for the Blind
An interview with Kelly Fordon, Author of Garden for the Blind (Wayne State University Press, 1 April 2015)–In her collection of linked stories, GARDEN FOR THE BLIND, author Kelly Fordon explores questions of race and privilege through the experiences of Alice Townley, a resident of an affluent suburb outside of Detroit. As the story begins Alice loses her sister to an accident.
Center Explores Woman’s Quest to Toughen Up–2015
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Katherine Center, Author of HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS By Ellen Birkett Morris May 2015 Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center Buy this Book at Amazon.com May 2015 In her novel HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS, Katherine Center...
Hooper’s Evocative Novel Chronicles Journeys Across Place and Time
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Emma Hooper By Ellen Birkett Morris Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper Buy this Book at Amazon.com April 2015 In Emma Hooper’s novel ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES the reader accompanies...
Hood Explores Role of Women in An Italian Wife
An Italian Wife by Ann Hood Buy this Book at Amazon.com An Authorlink interview with Ann Hood, author of AN ITALIAN WIFE ( W. W. Norton & Company). Ann Hood began her apprenticeship as a writer as a close reader. Growing up in a blue collar mill town in Rhode Isl...
Tara Ison Explores How to Be a Writer – 2015
Tara Ison Explores How to Be a Writer An exclusive Authorlink interview with the author of Reeling Through Life By Ellen Birkett Morris Reeling Through Life by Tara Ison Buy this Book at Amazon.com February 2015 Movies have created entire aspects of myself. They’ve...
Munaweera Explores the Power of Place in Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Munaweera Explores the Power of Place in Island of a Thousand Mirrors An exclusive Authorlink interview with Nayomi Munaweera By Ellen Birkett Morris Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera Buy this Book at Amazon.com January 2015 Nayomi Munaweera’s first...
Closed Doors Explores Tough Subject Gracefully – 2014
Closed Doors Explores Tough Subject Gracefully An exclusive Authorlink interview with Lisa O'Donnell By Ellen Birkett Morris Closed Doors by Lisa O'Donnell Buy this Book at Amazon.com December 2014 "It’s incredible to me even now how the story revealed itself...
Location, Location, Location: Change in Setting Sparks The Vacationers
Location, Location, Location: Change in Setting Sparks The Vacationers An exclusive Authorlink interview with Emma Straub By Ellen Birkett Morris The Vacationers by Emma Straub Buy this Book at Amazon.com November, 2014 Sometimes a change of scenery makes all the...
Juska Explores Family and Identity in The Blessings – 2014
Juska Explores Family and Identity in The Blessings An exclusive Authorlink interview with Elise Juska By Ellen Birkett Morris The Blessing by Elise Juska Buy this Book at Amazon.com October, 2014 When she wrote The Blessings, a novel that spans twenty years in the...
