Eleanor Morse’s most recent novel, This Foreign Land, launched in July of 2026. A previous novel, Margreete’s Harbor (St. Martin’s Press, 2021), won the 2022 Maine Literary Fiction Book Award. White Dog Fell from the Sky (Penguin/Viking 2013) was a 2014 Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week and an AudioFile Earphone Award winner. Her novel, An Unexpected Forest (Down East Books, 2007) was the 2008 Independent Publisher’s Gold Medalist Award winner for Best Regional Fiction in the Northeast U.S. and won Best Published Fiction at the 2008 Maine Literary Awards. Her short stories have been anthologized in North by Northeast, North by Northeast 2, and Positivity Bias (Littoral Books, 2019, 2021, 2025). Two essays were anthologized in Creativity and Compassion (Good River Books, 2021).

Eleanor earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Yale University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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 (originally called Spalding University’s low-residency M.F.A. in Writing program). 

She has lived in many places: New York and Ohio growing up; later, New Hampshire,

Botswana, India, and the Big Island of Hawaii. Maine is true north now, with a home on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland.

Her website is: www.eleanormorse.com