Grimm Retold Author Feature: Tiffany Morris

Original Poem “Born Against Teeth,” a retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood”

Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novella Green Fuse Burning (Stelliform Press, 2023) and the Elgin Award-winning horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars (Nictitating Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night, as well as in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others.

Links:

Tiffmorris.com
twitter.com/tiffmorris

”Born Against Teeth” is a retelling of the “Little Red Riding Hood” myth that celebrates resilience, partially invoked by my embrace of the Mi'kmaw language to tell it. This reclamation of language is grounded in the poetry that I write, and includes English as an invitation to learn the language together and de-stabilize use of English as default.