Thomas Morris

Born and raised in Caerphilly, South Wales, Thomas Morris is a Welsh writer and editor. He was educated in Welsh-medium schools and later studied English and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.

He is best known for the story collection We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, which won Wales Book of the Year, the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, and a Somerset Maugham Prize. His later collection, Open Up, was also published by Faber, and his stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and on BBC Radio 4.

Alongside his own writing, Morris has worked as an editor and mentor. He spent more than a decade with The Stinging Fly, where he helped support and publish emerging writers, and his work continues to be closely associated with contemporary short fiction in Wales and Ireland.