Ted Morrissey’s most recent books are Delta of Cassiopeia: Collected Stories and Sonnets (2023), the novel The Strophes of Job (2024), and Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets (2026). Retired from full-time teaching, he continues to teach online in Lindenwood University’s MFA in Writing program, as well as undergraduate creative writing courses for Southern New Hampshire University. He is the publisher of Twelve Winters Press and its various entities, including Twelve Winters Journal and the monthly podcast A Lesson before Writing, which he co-hosts. Forthcoming in 2027 are Aspects of Expressive Writing: The International Lectures, and “Vox Humana”: A Casebook (co-edited with Amina Ghazanfar). Like the poet Carl Sandburg, Ted was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois.