Member J.L.Morin

JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. Her debut novel, Sazzae, won an eLit gold medal and a Living Now Book Award. Travelling Light, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and Trading Dreams became ‘Occupy’s first bestselling novel’. Her climate fiction novel, Nature’s Confession, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards, and a Readers’ Favorite Book Award, a LitPick 5-Star Review Award, and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest. Her speculative novel Loveoid is a 1st Place Winner of the Cygnus Sci-fi Award; Book Excellence Finalist; ScreenCraft Semifinalist; was Fish Story Prize shortlisted; and was Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels shortlisted.

Her most recent work is a diverse rhyming children’s book illustrated by children throughout their lifetimes from the ages of 2 – 21, Tuck-a-tuck Dragon.

JL Morin’s writing in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, Agence France Presse, European Daily, Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers, and The Harvard Crimson. Her writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights at New York University; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and is adjunct faculty at Boston University.