Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of the nonlethal weapons concept, Nonlethality: A Global Strategy. Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 20 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons[2], a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.Morris was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1980. Morris served as Research Director and Senior Fellow (1989-1994) at the United States Global Strategy Council, as well as Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1993-1995). In 2003-4 she served on the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities and contributed to the Task Force report, Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities (2004).

In 1995, Morris and her husband and frequent co-writer Christopher Morris founded M2 Technologies, which works with U.S. federal and military agencies on nonlethal weapon systems, novel technology applications, and software.