Morgan English is a poet, cultural critic, and editor. Her poetry is featured in a Rizzoli monograph on the artist Emily Mason, and she received the 2021 Editor’s Award in Poetry from The Florida Review. She has edited for renowned independent presses such as Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press, as well as for professional writers, poets, and scholars, including A.V. Marraccini and Eugenie Dalland. Morgan has interviewed acclaimed authors including Sigrid Nunez and Makenna Goodman, and in 2025 was commissioned by SHOOSTER Arts & Literature to write a collection of short-form hybrid art criticism that blends biography and memoir. Read some of these pieces here.
Morgan helps with book buying and events at Antidote Books, hosting writers such as Mónica de la Torre, Isabel Campos Santos, Matthew Rohrer, and Dobby Gibson.
She holds an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and a BA in creative writing from Florida State University, where she minored in environmental geography. Her diverse experiences—from farming in the Florida Panhandle, fine gardening for Garden Conservancy gardens in Vermont, to working as a manager at Keith McNally’s iconic restaurant Lucky Strike—deeply inform her work. She writes about place, social class, labor, visual art, and literature. She divides her time between Vermont and New York City.
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
Emily Mason: Unknown to Possibility
The first comprehensive survey of a singular voice in New York abstraction, showcasing Mason’s audacious explorations in color and intuitive command of form.
2021 Editors’ Award in Poetry, The Florida Review
St. Petersburg Review Launch Party @ Unnameable Books
