Elizabeth B. Morse is a writer who values the quirky and the darkly humorous. She is hard-wired to be a night owl, writing exclusively after 9 PM. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines including Kestrel, Scoundrel Time, and Active Muse as well as anthologies such as the Writing Resilience Anthology and Help Yourself.  Her short story was shortlisted in the Panurge Tale of Two Cities Fiction Competition, and she won first prize for flash fiction in Cardinal Sins. She has an MFA from Brooklyn College and has studied with Larissa Shmailo and Christopher Durang. Her poetry chapbook, The Color Between the Hours, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her full-length poetry collection, Unreasonable Weather, was published in 2025 by Kelsay Books, and a poem in this book was nominated for a Pushcart prize. She was a finalist in the Blue Light Press full-length poetry competition as well as their chapbook competition. She is the poetry editor of BigCityLit and is an associate editor of the Brownstone Poets Anthology. 

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