Joel H. Morris is the author of the USA Today bestseller, ”All Our Yesterdays,” his debut novel. He teaches English at Cherry Creek High School. Prior to that, he taught college and worked as an officer aboard small maritime expedition ships. His essays, translations, and stories have appeared in Literary Hub, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He lives near Denver, Colorado.

This book won the 2025 Colorado Book Award for Historical Fiction.

SunLit: Tell us this book’s backstory – what’s it about and what inspired you to write it?

Joel H. Morris: This is the story of Lady Macbeth’s early marriage to Macbeth and her experience as a mother. I’d been thinking about Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” for years — it’s one of my favorite plays both to watch and to teach. With its

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