meet the author
Morin Mezzadri
Elmira College graduate. Evil stepmother (by marriage, not disposition. Allegedly). Armchair murder trial analyst.Morin Mezzadri has a fondness for complicated women, inconvenient historical facts, and an entirely reasonable obsession with true crime and questionable alibis.Her fiction explores the lives of women history remembers, women history forgets, and women history probably should have questioned more thoroughly.
Working Title 1
A novel about the life (and death) of Abby Durfee BordenAbby had a life before Lizzie had a legend.Before she became a footnote in America's most infamous murder mystery, Abby Borden was a woman with a life of her own. This work of historical fiction reimagines the woman behind the legend: her loves, her disappointments, her ordinary days, and the extraordinary circumstances that would erase them.A story about a woman who lived an entire life before the world's worst headache.
Working Title 2
Be It Ever SoSeven women. One college. Eight stories intertwined across 170 years.From 1855 to 2025, seven Elmira College alumnae navigate the expectations of their eras, the ambitions they dare to pursue, and the lives they never imagined living.Connected by the tradition of the alumnae ring, their stories unfold alongside an eighth character: Elmira College itself. A place that grows, struggles, remembers, and changes with the women who walk its halls.A novel about what women inherit, what they leave behind, and how a place can shape a life just as surely as the people who inhabit it.
