Morris, Josephine is an American novelist and essayist whose work explores memory, music, and the architecture of secrets. Raised in coastal Rhode Island, she studied literature and archival studies at the University of Massachusetts and worked for several years as a special collections assistant in Providence, cataloging composers' papers and brittle reel-to-reel tapes. Her short fiction has appeared in regional journals and was a finalist for the New England Book Festival award for unpublished manuscripts. She lives in Portland, Maine, where she volunteers with a maritime museum and hikes year-round with a very stubborn rescue hound. When she is not writing, she plays a secondhand upright piano with more charm than tuning.
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