Ellen Morris Prewitt is the author of three novels; a nonfiction book; a short story collection which won the CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award with stories downloaded over 50,000 times worldwide; and numerous stories and essays. Her stories have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; one received a Special Mention. Her work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Barrelhouse, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Alaska Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, EAP: The Magazine, Image, Crack the Spine, Southern Women’s Review, Connotation Press, Literary Orphans, Alimentum, Texas Review, and elsewhere. She attended Sewanee Writers’ Conference and was the Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon College Summer Writing Program. For eight years, she facilitated a writing group of men and women experiencing homelessness and edited their book, Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness (Triton Press, 2014). For six years, she worked as a runway model. Before becoming a writer, she practiced law for nineteen years in Jackson, Mississippi. She splits her time between New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She's been known to appear in public in costume.