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gwall.jpgGiles Morris was born in Washington D.C. on April 15th, 1975, the son of a journalist and a U.S. Congressional press secretary. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Divinity School.

He has worked as a freelance writer in New York City; a high school teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Kyle, S.D.; an after school program director in Dorchester, Mass.; a community organizer on Chicago's south side;  a general assignment reporter for The Daily News in Rhinelander, Wisc.; and now as a staff writer at the Smoky Mountain News in Waynesville, N.C.
 
His writing has also appeared in The Chicago Journal , The Chicago Reader , The History Channel90:00 Soccer Magazine , pitchforkmedia.com, and the Wisconsin State Journal, among other places.