Edward Morris
Edward Morris is a 2009 Rhysling Award nominee and 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee whose work has appeared in Murky Depths, Interzone twice, and forty-size other markets in four languages and seven countries. His Lovecraft-inspired steampunk/alternate history series There Was A Crooked Man just hit at Mercury Retrograde Press in Atlanta. He will be a returning guest author/panelist at Orycon 31, and a new guest author at Bizarrocon, this fall. He is currently nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for his short story "Lotophagi" which appeared in Farrago's Wainscot #11.
Born on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, to a pair of visionaries from a long line of same, Morris might as well have had "WRITER" on his forehead when he came out.
He was reading Lovecraft from age five for the wonderful words like 'gibbous' and 'noisome' and 'eldritch'; favoring the Donald Grant editions (RIP) with the cool pictures. He wrote smart-aleck stuff to piss off his teachers for years, then promptly started winning literary magazine awards and such when he tried to do it more seriously.
* A note: Brian Lumley himself edited one of those early manuscripts when Morris tried to submit it (after getting his hands on one of his beloved Aunt Margaret's Writers Markets for some reason). Lumley very professionally and cooly showed all the ways the story wouldn't work, but wrote to him as though he were a grown man and lauded the parts he did like.
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Governor's School For the Arts and Temple University, he holds a BA in Screenwriting and an aversion to Hollywood. After moving out West with the inspiration for several of his more horrifying works, he emigrated to Portland and have never looked back.
He now live in the Hawthorne district with his Muse, local gallery artist and art therapist Serena Blossom Appel (http://laughingnewborn.wordpress.com). Serena has been the catalyst, since 2004, for his short stories having appeared in Finnish, Italian, Polish, Canadian, British and English, in seven countries to date.
Recently, the eight-book Central Pennsylvania alternate history horror yarn he began at age 11, There Was A Crooked Man, just sold to Mercury Retrograde Press in Atlanta. The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon will be but one leg of his local whistle-stop launch tour with other dates TBA.
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