Claire Messuds THE EMPERORS CHIDREN does what great novels do best captures the spirit of a generation while telling personal stories that portray the nuances of human experience.
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/
Suzanne Berne: Dont Be Afraid Of Getting It Wrong
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Suzanne Berne Author of The Ghost at the Table by Ellen Birkett Morris March 2007 A writing teacher once said to me, 'Whatever you do, don't show...
Novelist Matt Haig Believes Voice Is Key To Driving the Plot
The Dead Fathers Club by Phillip Noble Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Matt Haig Author of The Last Family in England and The Dead Fathers Club by Ellen Birkett Morris February 2007 An unusual perspective, a...
Novelist Elizabeth Berg Relies on the Power of the Unconscious
The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Elizabeth Berg Author of The Handmaid and the Carpenter (Random House, 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris November, 2006 Novelist Elizabeth...
Brad Kessler Uses Myth to Weave Tale of Loss
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Brad Kessler Author of Birds in Fall (Scribner, 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris October, 2006 Author Brad Kessler described books as tombstones marking what the...
Kim Edwards Doesnt Choose Stories; They Choose Her
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink intervie with Kim Edwards Author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Penguin Group (USA) 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris September, 2006 All stories feel a...
Kay Gill Has a Compelling Reason to Write
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 Press, 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris August 2006 Every once in a while a writer encounters a story so...
Doubt Makes You A Better Writer Says Dana Reinhardt
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with First-time Novelist Dana Reinhardt Author of A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2006) by Ellen...
Marcia K. Preston’s The Piano Man Tackles Emotional Topic of Organ Donation
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Marcia K. Preston Author of The Piano Man (Mira Books 2005) by Ellen Birkett Morris April 2006 The Piano Man by Marcia K. Preston Buy this book via Amazon.com We've all seen commercials that tug at our heartstrings....
Writing What She Knows Lands Beverly Bartlett Her First Contract
An exclusive Authorlink interview with Beverly Bartlett Author of Princess Izzy and The E Street Shuffle (5 Spot/Warner) by Ellen Birkett Morris March, 2006 Princess Izzy and The E Street Shuffle by Beverly Bartlett Buy this book via Amazon.com Every writer has...
