The Yellow House Patricia Falvey Buy this Book at Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Patricia Falvey, Debut author of The Yellow House By Ellen Birkett Morris August 2010 When author Patricia Falvey had a high level job as managing...
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/
Fascinating Photograph Inspires Lisa Grunwald
The Irrestible Henry House Lisa Grunwald Buy this Book at Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Lisa Grunwald, author of The Irresistible Henry House By Ellen Birkett Morris June 2010 Lisa Grunwald was working on an anthology of womens...
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Big Questions, Compelling Characters
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein was a highly trained philosopher, with a Ph.D. from Princeton University, when she became a reluctant novelist. She was a young assistant professor dealing with the emotionally charged life changes of losing her father and having a baby.
Discipline and Compelling Characters Drive Jami Attenberg’s Novels
The Melting Season Jami Attenberg Buy this Book at Amazon.com An exclusive interview with Jami Attenberg, author of The Melting Season By Ellen Birkett Morris March 2010 I did not mean to take the money. Well, not all of it. -- The Melting Season Author Jami...
A. Manette Ansay Melds History, Life Experience to Create Compelling Tale
Good Things I Wish You A. Manette Ansay Buy this Book at Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with A. Manette Ansay author of GOOD THINGS I WISH YOU By Ellen Birkett Morris January 2010 In her sixth novel, GOOD THINGS I WISH YOU, author A. Manette Ansay...
Laurie Viera Rigler’s Obsession with Austen Yields Successful Novels
Rude Awakening of a Jane Austen Addict Laurie Viera Rigler Buy this Book at Amazon.com An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Laurie Viera Rigler By Ellen Birkett Morris November 2009 Like many women readers Laurie Viera Rigler had a thing for Jane Austen. She...
Never-Ending Devotion to Art Makes David Baker’s Poems Live
Never-Ending Birds David Baker Buy this Book at Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with poet and poetry editor of The Kenyon Review By Ellen Birkett Morris October 2009 In the title poem of his volume Never-Ending Birds David Baker...
Internationally Acclaimed Author Stewart O’Nan Hunts for the Emotional Center of a Story
Stewart O’Nan provides Authorlink columnist Ellen Birkett Morris with insights into his writing life. ONan is the author of a dozen novels, including Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, The Good Wife and Last Night at the Lobster. With Stephen King, he wrote Faithful, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. His newest novel, the international bestseller Songs for the Missing, named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others.
Jayne Anne Phillips Finds Ineffable Secrets In Her Own Material
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Jayne Anne Phillips author of Lark and Termite by Ellen Birkett Morris May 2009 If you read the table of contents of Jayne Anne...
Write Whats Growing in Your Heart, Advises Janice Y. K. Lee
Reading the richly interwoven story of two women and the man they love in Janice Y. K. Lee’s THE PIANO TEACHER it is hard to believe that it was originally a short story. Lee, who started writing fiction in junior high school and never stopped writing, used to find the short story the most natural form for her writing.
