Ellen Birkett Morris

About Ellen Birkett Morris
Ellen Birkett Morris is an award-winning journalist whose interviews and reviews have appeared in Authorlink, Prairie Schooner Online, The Louisville Courier-Journal, and reprinted in the reader’s guides to The Receptionist and Clever Girl. Her fiction has appeared in journals including Antioch Review, South Caroline Review, and Notre Dame Review. Ellen is a regular contributor to Authorlink.
Ellen is an avid reader and channeled her love of writing into a career as a journalist before taking up creative writing herself. She has contributed articles to national publications including Cooking Light, www.DrKoop.com, and www.womensenews.org.
Ellen’s creative writing crosses genres. She is the author of Surrender, a poetry chapbook. Her fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in journals including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, wigleaf, Inscape, The Butter, and Shenandoah.
Ellen loves literary fiction, poetry, essays and mysteries. She seeks to interview authors who write beautifully and have a style that is both evocative and accessible.
“I love the work of writers who present unique characters revealed through quirky, particular details. If the characters are believable, I will follow them anywhere. I am less interested in celebrity books that are a collection of random anecdotes. I am looking for a narrative that takes me somewhere.”
Ellen enjoys hearing about where writers get their ideas for work and about the challenges each new book represents.
“It is an honor to talk to writers who share their creative process and talk about the challenges they have overcome. These kinds of insights help us become better writers and better readers.”
Author Archives for Ellen Birkett Morris
September 1, 2006 12:00 am
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink intervie with Kim Edwards Author... View Article
August 1, 2006 12:00 am
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Mirels Daughter by Kay Gill Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Kay Gill Author of Mirels Daughter (Fleur-de-Lis... View Article
June 1, 2006 12:00 am
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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with... View Article
March 30, 2006 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Marcia K. Preston Author of The Piano Man (Mira Books 2005) by Ellen Birkett Morris April... View Article
March 1, 2006 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Beverly Bartlett Author of Princess Izzy and The E Street Shuffle (5 Spot/Warner) by Ellen Birkett... View Article
February 1, 2006 12:00 am
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Judy Bernstein Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with... View Article
January 1, 2006 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Julie Powell Author of JULIE AND JULIA (Little, Brown, 2005) by Ellen Birkett Morris January,... View Article
December 1, 2005 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Joan Medlicott Author of the Ladies of Covington Series (Pocket Books 2005) by Ellen Birkett... View Article
November 1, 2005 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Maura Conlon-McIvor Author of She's All Eyes (Warner Books, 2005, previously published as FBI Girl)... View Article
October 1, 2005 12:00 am
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An exclusive Authorlink interview with Don Silver author of BACKWARD-FACING MAN by Ellen Birkett Morris October 2005 There... View Article