Eleanor Morse

AUTHOR + EDUCATOR

Eleanor earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Yale University. She has taught in adult education programs, in prisons, and in university systems, both in Maine and in southern Africa, and was a faculty member with the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in Louisville, Kentucky from 2008 to 2022.

Eleanor Morse’s novel, Margreete’s Harbor, was the winner of the 2022 Maine Writers and Publisher Alliance (MWPA) Fiction Book Award. White Dog Fell from the Sky was a 2014 Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner. Her novel, An Unexpected Forest, earned the 2008 Independent Publisher's Gold Medalist Award for Best Regional Fiction in the Northeast U.S. and won Best Published Fiction at the 2008 Maine Literary Awards. 

She has lived in many places: New York and Ohio growing up; Pennsylvania and Connecticut for college and graduate school; then New Hampshire, Botswana, India, and the Big Island, Hawaii. Maine is true north now, home on a small island off the coast of Portland.