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Bill Morris lives and works in the soundside village of Straits in Down East Carteret County. That same sound country is the setting for his first novel, Saltwater Cowboys, as well as the story "Dinah's Dog," winner of the 2003 Doris Betts Prize for short fiction. A graduate of Duke University, Morris is a regular contributor to Our State and Wildlife in North Carolina magazines, as well as the Raleigh News and Observer outdoors pages. His work has also appeared in the North Carolina Literary Review, Real Fiction, The Dead Mule, Urban Hiker, Spectator, and the Best of the O. Henry Festival 2003. He is currently at work on a second Down East novel.