Eleanor Morse is the author of four previous novels, including Margreete’s Harbor, winner of the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Fiction, and White Dog Fell from the Sky, set in Botswana. Her stories have appeared in Positivity Bias: Maine Writers, Defiantly Happy Endings, and in the two North by Northeast short story anthologies published by Littoral Books. Eleanor has taught writing in prisons and in universities in Maine, Kentucky, and Botswana. She lives on Peaks Island.