Morris Collins’s first novel, Horse Latitudes, was published by Dzanc Books in January 2019. His new novel, The Tavern at the End of History, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in February 2026.
Collins received an O. Henry Award in 2024. The winning story was selected by Amor Towles and appeared in the 2024 edition of The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners. Other fiction and poetry has appeared in Subtropics, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review and The Florida Review among others.
He has recently completed a new novel: Sleepwalkers of the North Atlantic.
He attended the University of Rochester where he studied English and Medieval Studies and received his MFA from Penn State University in 2008. He teaches creative writing and literature at the College of the Holy Cross. He can be reached at morris.a.collins@gmail.com
Morris Collins 