Ellen Birkett Morris writes poetry, fiction and short plays from her home in Louisville, Kentucky. Her fiction is forthcoming in Notre Dame Review and CaKe, and has appeared in South Carolina Review and Santa Fe Literary Review. Her story, “The Cycle of Life and Other Incidentals,” was selected as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Press Family Matters short story competition. Her ten-minute play, “Lost Girls,” was a finalist for the 2008 Heideman Award given by Actors Theatre of Louisville and was given a staged reading at the Arnoff Center in Cincinnati. Her poetry is forthcoming in Thin Air Magazine and Clackamas Literary Review, and has appeared in journals including Alimentum, Juked, Ruminate, and Gastronomica. Her work won top poetry prize in The Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition in 2008 and was Semi-finalist for Rita Dove Poetry Award. Her poem, Origins, was nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize.

Hidden Kitchens (Rodale, 2006), Nesting: Its a Chick Thing (Workman Publishing, 2004), The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003)

Alimentum, Binnacle, Centrifugal Eye, Clapboard House, Gastronomica, Heartland Review, Mindprints, Notre Dame Review, Paradigm, Pedestal Magazine, Plays, Ruminate, Salt River Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Rambler, The South Carolina Review, Thin Air Magazine, Turtle Quarterly