Morgan English is the recipient of The Florida Review’s 2021 Editor’s Award in Poetry, and a poetry reader at The Adroit Journal. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming 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
