Clever and charming, “The Mary Years” offers stories of Julie Marie Wade’s challenges and triumphs juxtaposed with observations about lessons learned from Moore.
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Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award and finalist for the Clara Johnson, IAN and Best Book awards. Her novel Beware the Tall Grass is the winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence and will be published in March of 2024 by CSU Press. 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. She attended the Kentucky Women Writers Conference on fellowship and teaches creative writing at The Virginia Piper Center at ASU in Tempe, Arizona and The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. Morris has spoken and taught at the 2018 Antioch Writers Workshop, 2019 Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2022 Writer’s Block Festival and 2022 Louisville Book Festival.
A Family, and Nation’s, Search for Self in “A Reason to See You Again”
Jami Attenberg’s latest novel explores how Cohen family members seek to improve themselves against the backdrop of the 70s, 80s and 90s America.
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Puzzles, Trust, and Mystery: An Interview with Ellen Birkett Morris and Abby Lipscomb
An author-on-author interview with Ellen Birkett Morris and Abby Lipscomb.
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The Victim, Detective, and Criminal All at Once: An Interview With David Payne
An interview with author David Payne on his recently reissued books, “Early From the Dance,” “Ruin Creek,” and “Gravesend Light.”
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Narrative Dreaming in Leesa Cross-Smith’s “Half-Blown Rose”
A review of Leesa Cross-Smith’s paperback release of “Half-Blown Rose.”
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How Race and Horse Racing are Interconnected: An Interview with Geraldine Brooks
An interview with Geraldine Brooks about her novel, “Horse.”
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“How Strange a Season”: Lush, Seductive and Burdened with History
A review of Megan Mayhew Bergman’s new story collection, “How Strange a Season.”
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“I Came All This Way to Meet You” Is a Worthy Journey for Readers Looking For Insight or Escape
A review of Jami Attenberg’s memoir, “I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home.”
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“Pumpkin” Ends a Trilogy Filled with Boundary-Breaking, Body-Positive Characters
A review of Julie Murphy’s new novel, “Pumpkin.”
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Naima Coster Explores Questions of Race, Identity, and Belonging in Latest Novel, “What’s Mine and Yours”
In her latest novel, “What’s Mine and Yours,” Naima Coster joins writers like Britt Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half, in exploring questions of race, identity, and belonging.
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