Ted Morrissey has been called "the modern-day Hawthorne" (Reader Views), and he's been the recipient of several literary awards, including the American Fiction Award, the International Book Award, and the Manhattan Book Award; he's also been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Kirkus Prize, and the Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology. His novels include Mrs Saville, a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and An Untimely Frost, also inspired by the life and times of Mary Shelley. Retired from full-time teaching, he continues to teach online for Lindenwood University and Southern New Hampshire University. He co-hosts (with Brady Harrison and Grant Tracey) the monthly podcast A Lesson before Writing. In 2024-25, he had the honor of delivering by invitation a series of lectures remotely to colleagues and students in Hue, Vietnam; Islamabad, Pakistan; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Tehran, Iran. The topics included the evolution of the English language, a history of popular fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, and literary trauma theory. Like the poet Carl Sandburg, Ted was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois.