Elizabeth Buechner Morris

When I retired, my husband, Monty, and I moved aboard our 39 foot sailboat - Salsa - and cruised the waters of the American and Canadian east coast, Caribbean, and South and Central America for five years, braving all the usual demons from horrific storms to marauding jelly fish to once having a boa constrictor aboard. Now we live ashore most of each year, only living aboard full time in the sub-tropics during the winter.

I am a New Yorker by birth and temperament, although I live by the sea in Marblehead, Massachusetts and have for most of my adult life.

I write for the sailing press: SAIL Magazine, Points East, Southwinds, Power Cruising, and others. And I've had success with short fiction, having been published in The Caribbean Writer, Hawai'i Pacific Review, The Binnacle, The Evening Street Review, Janus, Slow Trains, WordRiot, PersimmonTree, Evening Street Review, weber studies, The Hurricane Review and others. I've been asked to run writing workshops in Salem and Marblehead, MA and have done readings in MA and FL. I've won literary prizes in Natick (The Center for Arts in Natick and Morse Institute Library) and Marblehead (Marblehead Festival of the Arts). Click on the links above for Short Stories and Sailing Articles to read some of my favorites.

I have degrees from Goddard College in Vermont (BA) and Simmons College in Boston (MBA); those gold stars led to a career in banking - Bank of Boston.

And, most important: I have three great kids - Tom, Peter, and Chris. Thanks to them, I have four outstanding grandchildren - Dan, Nicole, Zander, and Maia.

Please visit my web site: elizabethbmorris.webs.com