ABOUT
Okay, so talking about myself is definitely not my favorite thing in the world! But, seeing how you did navigate to this page in order to learn a little about me, I’ll do my best!
Like many writers out there, I started writing as a little girl. It started one day in the third grade. There I was, sitting in class, hands clasped, back straight. My black and white marble composition notebook sat on my desk before me, pencil by its side. The assignment was to write a poem. It could utilize any pattern or style we desired. I remember sitting and staring at the page, thinking, wondering, seeing. Then the words poured out. The near frantic scribbling across the pages is something I can still feel today, decades later. That day, eight year old me wrote her first poem.
In the coming years, many other poems followed. Most were what you would expect of an eight, nine, ten-year-old. But some still surprise me, especially the first. By the time I reached fifth grade, I wrote my first book. I laid on the living room floor of my family’s small apartment, typing away on the computer my father built from spare parts. When it was finished, the school librarian had it bound and put it in the school’s library. It was my first “published” work.
Two years later I wrote another book, something of a sequel to the first. But from eighth grade through to adulthood, that was the last “big” project I completed. Poetry was my focus for years and helped me through the tumult of teenagerdom and early adulthood.
It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that I really returned to writing. I was laid off from work and one day, while my husband rubbed my stressed, aching shoulders, I thought… What if I wrote a book?
In early 2020 I started working on what would later become my first novel, Water on the Grid.
Writing, as you may have guessed, is a huge part of my life. But I’ve been blessed with so much more. In my professional life I act as a paralegal and operations supervisor for a law firm and title insurance company that always keeps me on my toes. Then, at home, I spend my free time with my husband, who I’ve known since childhood, our two amazing boys, and our Mini English Goldendoodle, Marshall. We enjoy spending time outdoors, traveling and having as many adventures as possible.
Time is fleeting and my goal has always been to live life to the fullest.
I hope you can find as much joy reading my stories, as I’ve found in writing them.
PAULINE MARIE MORRIS 