Morgan Parker
Author · 8 books
Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, a Goodreads Choice Award semi-finalist, and Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, The New York Times, and The Nation. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is a Sagittarius.
Books
The 200 Episode Club
Original Fiction and Poetry
2016
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
2017
You Get What You Pay For
Essays
2024
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night
2015
The Literary Review
Women's Studies
2014
Magical Negro
2019
Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020
Who Put This Song On?
2019
