About
Hello. I’m William Henry Morris*. I read, write and edit fiction. I also sometimes deploy my academic training in literary criticism and my professional expertise in marketing and public relation in relation to fiction and the publishing industry.
My primary interests are literary fiction — especially the 19th and early 20th century novel and novella and the 20th century short story — and speculative fiction — especially high fantasy, urban fantasy, steam punk, cyberpunk, space opera and far future sci-fi (dying earth). And I like my speculative fiction to skew literary and my literary fiction to not shy away from the fantastical. I’m also a huge fan of humor in fiction, including the obvious: Wodehouse, Pratchett, Fforde, etc.
For what I’ve read in the past couple of years, see my Goodreads profile.
Major favorites include: Franz Kafka, Bulgakov, Leo Tolstoy, Lois McMaster Bujold, Steven Brust, Henry James, Robin Hobb, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, John Donne, Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Octavia Butler and William Blake.
Most of my criticism, reviews and creative work have been in the rather small but emerging field of Mormon literature. I’m the founder of the Mormon arts and culture group blog A Motley Vision. And I’ve had a bit of work published in the field. For more details on those and other publications and projects, view my Catalog/Bibliography.
I currently live in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) with my wife and daughter and work in higher education marketing and public relations. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and from San Francisco State University with a master’s degree in comparative literature.
*Or Wm Henry Morris. Or simply WHM.
A Book I Edited
What I’m currently reading:
