Ted Morrissey is the author of the novels An Untimely Frost and Men of Winter, the novelette Figures in Blue, and stories and essays in more than thirty journals, among them Glimmer Train, PANK, Writers Ask and the North American Review. A Ph.D. in English studies, he has also published The Beowulf Poet and His Real Monsters, winner of the D. Simon Evans Prize for distinguished scholarship. He lives with his wife Melissa near Springfield, Illinois. Together they have five adult children and a rescued silky terrier named Einstein. Visit at tedmorrissey.com.