Ted Morrissey is the author of seven works of fiction, including, most recently, Crowsong for the Stricken and the forthcoming Mrs Saville. His novella Weeping with an Ancient God was a Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015, and his stories and novel excerpts have appeared in more than fifty journals, among them Glimmer Train Stories, PANK, ink&coda, and Southern Humanities Review. A Ph.D. in English studies, he has also published two works of scholarship. In addition to teaching high school English, he is a lecturer in Lindenwood University's MFA in Writing program (online). Previous to that he was a lecturer in English at Benedictine University and University of Illinois, Springfield campuses. His wife Melissa is an educator and children's author. Together they have five adult children, one grandchild, and two rescue dogs. Ted founded Twelve Winters Press in 2012, modeling it after Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.