About Carol

Carol Jane Morrison, M.S., writer, editor, speaker, and passion priority coach, is a Mississippi native who, after sixteen years as a Northwesterner, lives, as Jesse Winchester sings, with her “feet in Dixie and her head in the cool, blue North”. 

Carol wrote her first poem at age eight, titled “Airplane, Airplane, Oh So Strong”, and she continued writing poetry and stories throughout adolescence and adulthood.  Her muse beckoned more powerfully eight years ago, spurring her to study writing in the Seattle area with local novelists Janet Carey, Jack Remick, and Bob Ray, with editor Dorothy Wall in Berkeley, California, and with Natalie Goldberg on Cortes Island, British Columbia.  

After six years as a college teacher and motivational counselor, and fifteen years as a psychotherapist in private practice, Carol gradually decreased her patient caseload in order to pursue her writing, editing, and consulting interests. When her essay “Catching On” was published in Gray’s Sporting Journal,  Carol was inspired to write more about coming to understand her husband Ed’s fly-fishing passion, and is now introducing her first book of creative non-fiction, Catching On—Love with an Avid Fly Fisher.   

She currently creates and leads writing workshops and classes in the Seattle area, including “Dialogue—Writin’ the Talk” and “Handle with Care—Tips on Birthing a Book”, for the King County Library System;  “Freeing the Writer Within,” for the Write Out Loud! Component of RASP (Redmond Association for the Spoken Word); and “It’s All Material—Writing from Personal Experience” and “Minding Your P’s and Q’s—Making Passion a Priority for a Quality Life”, for community and academic organizations.  She facilitated “Write On! 2001” at North Bend Library, recruiting writers as monthly guest speakers, and was recently hired to continue and expand that program with “Write On! 2002”.     

Carol was married to a professional tennis player and a deep-sea diver, both experiences initiating her to the inner and outer lives of obsessed men and contributing background material for Catching On. She and her third (and, please Lord, last) husband, Ed, live and love on the south fork of the Snoqualmie River(a “freestone” river) in North Bend, Washington, with their cats, Emmylou Harris and Seattle Sunshine.  Most of the time, Carol doesn’t even care if Ed goes fishing.