Sandell Morse’s nonfiction has been noted in The Best American Essays series and published in Creative Nonfiction, Ploughshares, the New England Review, Fourth Genre, ASCENT, Solstice, and Brevity among others. She has won the Michael Steinberg essay prize, been nominated for Best of the Net and for a Pushcart Prize. Morse has won awards for her work from Press 53 and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Her memoir, The Spiral Shell, A French Village Reveals it Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II is forthcoming from Schaffner Press, April 2020.