His first book, Storm on the Horizon, an account of the Gulf War battle of Khafji was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004 and subsequently adapted for television by The History Channel.
[2] Shortly after his first book came out, Morris began working as a war correspondent in Iraq, covering the first battle of Fallujah and the Anbar Awakening for Salon and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
[3] His story “The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground” was originally published in VQR and was included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007.
"[12][13] David Brooks, the New York Times columnist wrote that The Evil Hours "reminded me why I wanted to be a writer in the first place.
He has taught writing at the University of California, Riverside and at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Ripton, Vermont.