New book 'The Bella' by Ex-Cambridge postdoc Benjamin Morris

Set over the course of a single day -- Tuesday, December 15, 2009 -- during COP15, the United Nations climate negotiations at Copenhagen, 'The Bella' tells the story of a crew of filmmakers in attendance at one of the most controversial global meetings in modern history, attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. This day was the last day before the Bella Center, the site of the negotiations, was placed on secure lockdown for visiting dignitaries and heads of state, and the day that protests across the city began to escalate into widespread violence.

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The Bella is available as a Kindle edition from Amazon

About Ben:

Ben Morris grew up in Mississippi, and after college at Duke University, where he studied literature and philosophy, he read poetry at the University of Edinburgh and cultural heritage at the University of Cambridge, where he completed a PhD about the role the arts played in the post-Katrina rebuilding process of New Orleans, the city he now calls home.

He is a columnist and administrator for UptownMessenger.com, an online news site that serves Uptown New Orleans, with coverage focusing on news, crime, events, and politics and an editor at Forest Publications in Edinburgh. He is a researcher at the Open University in the UK, in the OpenSpace Centre for Geographical and Environmental Research, as well as a media producer for the Creative Climate initiative.

But mostly, he is a writer --- a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist. His work appears in a range of publications, as this site details, and has received a range of awards --- most recently, a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission and an artist's residency from A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans.