Paula Martin Morell is an award-winning writer who received her M.F.A. at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop.
Paula is a gifted teacher who is both supportive and intuitive. Her students have ranged from elementary students to retirees, and her methods and guidance are invaluable for both those that want to write their first works and those that have been publishing for years.
Her critically acclaimed novel-in-stories, broken water, was released in September, 2004 (www.brokenwater.com). Her writing workshop Invoking the Gifts was released in April 2005. Her short stories, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in several publications, including Short Story Journal, New Works Review, Outsider Ink, Passport Journal, Southern Hum, The Foliate Oak, The Arkansas Women's Journal, Word Salad, Little Rock Free Press, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Quills and Pixels, and The Double Dealer Redux. Three times she has been featured as an emerging writer at the International Conference on the Short Story in English (1998, 2000, 2002). She has received numerous writing awards, both local and international. Her background includes working as an assistant editor, literary judge, conference coordinator, university professor, and creative writing instructor, and she has been teaching creative writing courses both online and in Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas since 1998. She currently teaches writing for Saint Leo University and owns and operates Starving Artist Cafe' with her husband.
Paula's interests include working with beginning writers, professional writers, disadvantaged and underpriveledged women, AIDS and cancer patients, spiritual groups, those in recovery-- all types of people in all stages of life. She has seen the amazing process of people discovering their voice and their own unique truths, and her guidance and support have helped people from all walks of life grow in confidence.
Paula, her husband Jason, and their daughters Annaliese and Sophia live in Little Rock.
