English Faculty Paula Morris II

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Ahearn,Barry Albrecht,Thomas Burke,Molly Codr,Dwight Cooley,Peter Desai,Gaurav Dinerstein,Joel Edmonds,Dale Elmwood,Victoria Foster,Ken Foy,Roslyn Gelley,Ora Goldman,Jonathan Johnson,T.R. Kaufmann,David Koritz,Amy Kuczynski,Michael Leland,Jacob Letter,Joe Lewis,Nghana Livingston,Judith Mark,Rebecca Morris,Paula Munkhoff,Richelle Nair,Supriya Oldman,Elizabeth Pizer,Donald Rothenberg,Molly Smith,Felipe Snare,Gerald Toulouse,Teresa Travis,Molly	Paula Morris Assistant Professor of English Norman Mayer Room 210 Telephone: (504) 862-8165 Fax: (504) 862-8958 E-mail: pmorris@tulane.edu Paula Morris, a novelist and short story writer of English and Maori descent, was born in New Zealand. For almost a decade she worked in the record business in London and New York. She has also worked as an advertising copywriter and brand strategist. Her first novel, Queen of Beauty, won best first work of fiction at the 2003 New Zealand Book Awards. Hibiscus Coast, a literary thriller set in Auckland and Shanghai, was published in 2005 and has been optioned for film. Her third novel, Trendy But Casual, is a satire set in New York City, and was published by Penguin New Zealand in 2007. Paula holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a D. Phil from the University of York, England. She reviews and writes features for a number of publications. She is currently at work on a short story collection, Forbidden Cities, and Rangatira, an historical novel set in nineteenth-century England and New Zealand.