Morgan English is the recipient of The Florida Review’s 2021 Editor’s Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, and St. Petersburg Review. Morgan holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Originally from Florida, she lives, works, and writes in southern Vermont, where she is currently an MFA candidate at Bennington College.
Contact: morganenglishwrites@gmail.com
“The speaker of Morgan English’s “Your Bitter Girl,” our showstopper of a winner in a poetry, summons Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Romance Sonámbulo” but turns the ballad into a rant: “ I’m sick of clothing myself in someone else’s labor / and calling that self worth.” I read it as a poem of resistance, in which resistance itself is beautiful, even poetic: “Let me rustle like a meadow until I’m gone.” —The Florida Review
