morris.jpgEdward Morris was born on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina in 1975, and grew up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University in 1998 with a BA in Film, and lived in the Bay Area for a year before transplanting to Portland, Oregon, where he lives and works with his Muse, gallery artist and graduate art therapy student Serena Blossom Appel. Morris was a 2005 nominee for the British Science Fiction Association Award, and considered for the 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History as well. To date, he has published over 25 short stories, sold three books to Samhain Publications with a fourth in progress, and collaborated extensively with Texan SF author Lou Antonelli; one such collaboration is being considered by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His work has been read and approved of enthusiastically by such giants as Paul Di Filippo, Jeff VanderMeer, Geoffrey A. Landis, Philip José Farmer and Harry Turtledove. Morris also facilitated Harlan Ellison’s first appearance in Interzone #210.

Morris’ work has appeared in Interzone twice, Heliotrope, Oceans of the Mind, Amazon Shorts and numerous other markets. Morris is currently writing three novels, working on a long novella about Nikola Tesla called We Now Have Power, holding down a full-time job and occasionally finding time to sleep.

Atlantis 1999: A Memoir

Imagine Steinbeck possessed by the spirits of T. S. Eliot and William Faulkner living in San Francisco in 1999.

Now give him a pen.

Morris has written The Grapes of Wrath for a new generation. This slipstream beat poem in prose chronicles the lives of a young couple starting out in the wrong place, at the wrong time, without enough money.

Reading it is like riding Atlantis back into the sea.