Author2Author with Ellen Birkett Morris

Bill welcomes debut fiction author Ellen Birkett Morris to the show. Ellen is the author of Lost Girls, a collection of short stories called "a varied set of tales from a skilled practitioner of the short form" by Kirkus Reviews. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, South Carolina Review, and Santa Fe Literary Review, among other journals. She is a winner of the Bevel Summers Prize for short fiction. She is also a recipient of a 2013 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Her poetry can be found in Surrender (Finishing Line Press), a chapbook, and her forthcoming chapbook Abide (Seven Kitchens Press).