MFA, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Professor of Writing; served as Director of the MFA in Writing program for ten years.
• Editor and founder, The Lindenwood Review literary journal.
• Story collection: Dancing Madly (Adelaide Books 2019) - dancingmadly.blogspot.com
• Pushcart nominee; publications of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry include East Ridge Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Fiction Weekly, Mid Rivers Review, and elsewhere.
• Winner, Jim Haba Poetry Award; Honorable Mention, River Styx MicroFiction Contest

MFA, University of Notre Dame

• Author of three novels: Whiteman, The Konkans, and Mule
• Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Whiteman
• The Konkans was called a best novel of the year by the Washington Post
• Mule was recently optioned for film by Warner Bros
• Tony is the recipient of a Guggenheim, an NEA, and an O. Henry
• Tony’s nonfiction and investigative journalism have received major prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Florida Magazine Association and the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
• Tony has contributed to Esquire, Playboy, Salon, Granta, and McSweeney's. His nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Outside, Salon, NPR and many other venues.

MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts

• Winner of Lindenwood Adjunct Award in 2021.
• Author of the forthcoming novel The Monsters We Make (Crooked Lane Books, June 2020, published as Kali White) and the novels The Space Between and The Good Divide (published as Kali VanBaale)
• Recipient of an American Book Award, an Eric Hoffer Book Award, an IPPY silver medal for general fiction, the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award, and a State of Iowa Arts Council major artist grant
• Short stories and essays have appeared in The Coachella Review, The Chaffey Review, Midwestern Gothic, Nowhere Magazine, The Milo Review, Northwind Literary, Poets & Writers, The Writer, and several anthologies
• Assistant editor for the online micro essay journal Past Ten
• Volunteer writing mentor and reader for PEN America Writing for Justice prison writing program
• Website

MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop

• Named Provost’s Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
• Author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!, a selection for the ABA Winter Institute. 
• His work has appeared in The Boston Review, The Iowa Review, The Mid-American Review, The Seattle Review, Diagram, and elsewhere.
• Recipient of the Richard Yates Prize, the Clark Fisher Ansley Prize for excellence in fiction, and the Kurt Vonnegut Prize. 

MA, Northern Arizona University

• 100 Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan, 2016) - Contemporary young adult novel
• Brianna on the Brink (Holiday House, 2013) - Contemporary young adult novel
• Panelist and featured speaker at national literary conferences and festivals

PhD, English, Illinois State University; MA with Fiction specialization, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• Author of seven books of fiction, including the novels Mrs Saville and Crowsong for the Stricken (winner of the International Book Award in Literary Fiction, as well as the American Fiction Award, from Book Fest, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2017), and the novella Weeping with an Ancient God (a Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015).
• His fiction (mainly), reviews, essays and poems have appeared in approximately 70 journals, among them Glimmer Train, Paris Transcontinental, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Central American Literary Review.
• Ted’s monographs include Trauma Theory As a Method for Understanding Literary Texts and The ‘Beowulf’ Poet and His Real Monsters, winner of the D. Simon Evans Prize for Distinguished Scholarship. He’s also a William H. Gass scholar, and his conference papers on Gass’s work are available at his 12 Winters Blog. He has been a featured speaker and presenter at conferences nearly twenty times, including in Louisville, Ky., Boston, Mass., Hue, Vietnam, and Lisbon, Portugal.
• He founded Twelve Winters Press in 2012 and co-directs it with his wife Melissa, an educator and children’s author. Visit his website tedmorrissey.com and follow @t_morrissey.

• MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
• Taught creative writing at University of Maine Farmington and University of Iowa
• Short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, Torpedo, FiveChapters, and Hawk & Handsaw
• Co-Writer and Co-Producer, Clive Barker’s The Plague
• Written screenplays for Paramount and Sony
• Co-Host of Stuff We’ve Seen a podcast about movies
• Editor of Dust-Up literary anthology
• Co-Founder of the Iowa Youth Writing Project a non-profit creative writing outreach program for K-12

MFA, Washington University in St. Louis

• Author of two books of poems, of rain and nettles wove and supermoon (Singing Horse Press)
• Pushcart Nominee. Fiction, essays and poems have appeared and are forthcoming in various journals (including Gulf Coast, The Sycamore Review, The Missouri Review, Newfound, Luna Station Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Salamander, and Hayden's Ferry Review) and in the book anthologies They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology Of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press) and Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene (Wesleyan University Press)
• Co-translator (with Ye Chun) and editor of Long River, collected works of contemporary Chinese poet Yang Jian.
• Essays on ecopoetics have been published in Earthlines and in Ecozon@, a publication of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment.
• A chapbook, cold spell, was published by the DUSIE Kollektiv; an essay on "writing in the gaps" was published in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets (Black Lawrence Press)
• Contributes pedageekery to a higher-ed publication: Faculty Focus.

MFA, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, Packingtown Review, Puerto del Sol, Open City, Quarter After Eight, and Witness
• His poem "Pastoral For The Small Eddy At Your Waist" was featured in Indiana Review's 2009 Special Highlight On Short Essays and the Prose Poem
• Served as Managing Editor for Natural Bridge no. 17, which focused on new and emerging writers
  Awarded scholarship to The Southampton Writer's Conference in 2007, where he studied with poet Billy Collins

MFA, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Teacher of fiction and poetry in the MFA Program online and literature and Native American Studies in the classroom.
• Publications in Ploughshares, River Styx, The American Journal of Poetry.
• MA in American Culture Studies, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO

MFA, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Fiction in Thin Air Magazine
• Creative Non-Fiction in Natural Bridge
• Freelance Editor, Blue Lantern Publishing

MFA, Washington University in St. Louis

• Awarded the Hurst Fellowship at Washington University
• Mentored by two-time national poet laureate W.S. Merwin in extended thesis study
• Poems published in Cincinnati Poetry Review, Archetype, UCity Review,Chant de la Sirène: Journal of the Hybrid Arts, Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Spillway, Volt, and other journals
• Creator, scriptwriter, and producer of Gateway: The City's Reason, cli-fi story cycle and television series in development
• Managed professional writing, marketing communications and internal communications projects for the following clients: Emerson, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Centene, Cisco Systems, City of St. Louis, Express Scripts, Honda of America, KWMU Radio, Lindenwood University, Olin College of Business, Reuters, Saint Louis University, St. Louis Area Food Bank, Children’s Hospital, Southwestern Bell, University of Louisville,  and Washington University
• Recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for writing and communications arts by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AR 100, Communication Arts, Create Magazine, the Riverfront Times, Business Marketing Association, St. Louis Advertising Federation and the International Association of Business Communicators.

MFA, Mills College, Community Poetics Fellow
EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Poems and works have appeared recently in Entropy, Sonora Review, Cream City Review, Kweli Journal, The /tƐmz/ Review, and the Read Water (Locked Horn Press) and Far Villages (Black Lawrence Press) anthologies
• Joy Harjo Poetry Prize 2011 for the poem “Ghost Dance," Cuttthroat Journal of the Arts
• Alumnus of the VONA, Las Dos Brujas, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, & Napa Valley Writers’ workshops
• Manuscript [Repeat and fade] was the national 1st runner up for Inlandia Institute’s 2020 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize
• Core organizer with The Digital Sala, an ongoing worldwide Filipinx Literary Festival
• Veteran public school teacher, administrator, and teacher educator
• Father of two, San Francisco native, and longtime resident of Oakland, CA
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PhD, Florida State University; MFA, Wichita State University; MA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Common, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere
• Former Poetry Editor of BOAAT