Creative writing has always been my life, but after having kids my focus changed---in the best way. I decided to put down my metaphorical pen and have spent the better part of a decade researching topics including philosophy, health, psychology, creativity, environmental science, spirituality and even economics, to support my belief that leading a simple life of intention and connection can clear a path to achieving your life long dreams.
Before writing full time, I started a content creation business and ran thought leadership for a national non-profit, I received a BA in Literature from Trinity College, an MA in Literature from The University of Chicago, and an MFA in Screenwriting & Fiction from Fairfield University.
Now, I research, write, serve on boards connected to writing and education, including the Westport Writers Workshop, which has supported and connected writers for over 20 years., with a dedication to providing free writing workshops to underserved populations through it's ourtreach.
NOVELIST & SCREENWRITER
Alix Morrow
INSATIABLE CURIOSITIES, QUESTIONABLE LIFE CHOICES, GOOD TIMING AND INCREDIBLE PEOPLE.
My writing has been unceasingly inspired by
Over and over, writing has empowered me to ask questions and change my perspective by learning about others. That possibility gives me hope for the future. For me, novels, screenplays, and blogs are a way to discover the world…again, and again, and again.
My writing is not political. If anything, I wish the world would stop being so political. There is so much overlapping good on both sides in this country, but we’ve failed to come together for conversation about it, and, in doing so, made our differences so loud that the quiet good of our true intentions doesn't stand a chance. I hope to elevate the voice of those good intentions by researching topics that affect all of us through Simple Life Big Dreams, an bringing to the fore social and political topics we can’t seem to transgress on our own through my fiction and screenplays.
As part of my search for sanity and inspiration, I work on a blog called Simple Life Big Dreams. I live in Connecticut with my husband Patrick and our two daughters, Eleanor and Ophelia.
My writing is usually inspired by a seed of a story or circumstance I’ve heard somewhere, combined with something else completely unrelated like a place or a character trait that inspires me to take an entirely different tangent. When I was younger, it was in newspapers my parents made me read to keep up on current events, or sparked by people I’d see in line at the grocery store. Since, my writing career has been miraculously fueled by insatiable curiosities, questionable life choices, good timing, and incredible people. I follow many writers and thinkers including James Clear,, Kimberly Snyder, Stephen King, and Judd Apatow--but it was Paul Auster’s take on writing and authorhood that completely changed the course of my writing ten years ago... I hope he’s still writing, wherever he is.
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CURRENTLY, I AM...
PERPETUALLY CRAVING
Grilled vegetables
Ben Rector
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No Self, No Problem
UNSUCCESSFULLY READING
Nobody Wants This
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