Morgan English is a poet 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 was named a finalist for the 2025-26 Jake Adam York Prize from Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions for her manuscript The Field the World. She has edited for renowned independent presses such as Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press, as well as for professional writers, poets, and scholars. Morgan has interviewed acclaimed authors 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. You can read some of these pieces here.
She holds an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Her diverse experiences—from farming in the Florida Panhandle, gardening for Garden Conservancy gardens in Vermont, and working as a manager at Keith McNally’s restaurant Lucky Strike—inform her work. She writes about place, social class, labor, visual art, and literature.
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, Or to Light Once Again,” a poem by Morgan English
Brattleboro-based poet Morgan English reads her poem "Emily, Or to Light, Once Again", which was commissioned for and appears in the 2025 monograph "Emily Mason: Unknown to Possibility".
EPISODE NOTES
Morgan English was taped and edited by Lissa Weinmann.
To learn more about Morgan visit her website at: https://morgan-english.com/
Our theme music is by Ty Gibbons.Intro voice is Donna Blackney. Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council and the hundreds of volunteers and community members who support this work.
10th Annual Jake Adam York Prize Finalist
THE JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE
The Jake Adam York Prizefor a first or second poetry collection is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions.
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
