Colleen Morrissey was born in Omaha, Nebraska and hasn’t yet had the heart to live anywhere but the Midwest. She achieved her B.A. in English at the Iowa Writers Workshop and her M.A. in English literature at the University of Kansas. She is currently working toward her Ph.D. at the Ohio State University. Her story “Good Faith” was named as a Best American Short Stories 2013 Notable. Her fiction has appeared in Monkeybicycle, the Cincinnati Review, and Used Furniture Review; her nonfiction has appeared in Confrontation; and her poetry has appeared in Parcel and Blue Island Review.
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