Catherine Con Morse

Catherine Con Morse’s debut novel, THE NOTES, was a 2025 Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Honorable Mention for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CRAFT First Chapters contest. Her newest book is THE SUMMER I REMEMBERED EVERYTHING (April 2025), which was shortlisted for the 2026 All Connecticut Reads. A Kundiman fellow, Catherine received her MFA from Boston University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing for several years. Her work appears in Joyland, Letters, HOOT, Bostonia, and elsewhere, and has been a finalist for the Beacon Street Prize and the Baltimore Review fiction prize. In 2019, she was the Writer-in-Residence at Porter Square Books.

Today, Catherine lives in the Connecticut River Valley with her husband and two young daughters.