Mary Mor­ris is the author of numer­ous works of fic­tion — includ­ing the nov­els Gate­way to the Moon, The Jazz Palace, A Moth­er’s Love, and House Arrest—and of non­fic­tion. She is a recip­i­ent of the Rome Prize in lit­er­a­ture and the 2016 Anis­field-Wolf Book Award for Fic­tion. Mor­ris lives in Brook­lyn, New York.