Born in New York City, John Morgan won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry at Harvard and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets’ Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks, Alaska, to teach Creative Writing at the University of Alaska. His books include THE BONE-DUSTER (The Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series), THE ARCTIC HERD (The University of Alabama Press) and WALKING PAST MIDNIGHT (The University of Alabama Press), as well as four chap-books. SPEAR-FISHING ON THE CHATANIKA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS was published recently by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and many other magazines, and in about twenty anthologies. Winner of the New York Poetry Center’s Discovery Award, Morgan received two writing fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, a Bread Loaf scholarship and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2009, he served as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. Annie Dillard writes that his poems “are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man.”
