Morgan Parker (writer)

Parker at the 2017 Texas Book Festival.

Morgan Parker is an American poet and editor. She is the author of poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books, 2015)[1] and There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé (Tin House Books, 2017).[2]

Education

Parker completed her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing at Columbia University[3] and her MFA in poetry at New York University.[4]

Career

Parker is currently an editor at Little A and Day One. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico, is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel in New York,[5] and is a member of The Other Black Girl Collective[6] with poet and performer Angel Nafis.[7]

Her poetry has been featured in publications including The Awl, Poetry Foundation,[8] Tin House, and others. Her work was also included in Why I Am Not A Painter (Argos Books), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and Best American Poetry 2016.

In December 2015, she was Poetry Foundation's featured blogger.[9]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Parker was born and raised in Southern California before attending school in New York. She moved back to Southern California in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night - Switchback Books". switchbackbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  2. ↑ "Home | Tin House". Tin House. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  3. ↑ About Morgan Parker.
  4. ↑ https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/morgan-parker-beyoncé-poetry
  5. ↑ "Reparations, Live! With Morgan Parker", Ace Hotel.
  6. ↑ Collective, The Other Black Girl. "The Other Black Girl Collective". The Other Black Girl Collective. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  7. ↑ Isokawa, Dana. "Fractures Through Time: Our Eleventh Annual Look at Debut Poets". Poets & Writers. Poets & Writers Inc. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Let Me Handle My Business, Damn by Morgan Parker". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. 2017-07-16. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  9. ↑ "Poets & Writers Looks at 2015 Debut Poetry Collections by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-07-16. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  10. ↑ "Fellows". Cave Canem. Cave Canem Foundation. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
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