Morgan Parker

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Morgan Parker is the author of five books, most recently the essay collection You Get What You Pay For. Previous titles include Who Put This Song On?, a young adult novel; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At NightThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Shirley. 

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MFA in Creative Writing

  • MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University
  • BA in Creative Writing & Anthropology from Columbia University
  • You Get What You Pay For – One World, forthcoming 3/12/2024
  • Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night – Tin House Books, 2021 (reissue); Switchback Books, 2015 (first printing)
  • Who Put This Song On? – Delacorte Press, 2019
  • Magical Negro – Tin House Books, 2019
  • There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé – Tin House Books, 2017
  • National Book Critics Circle Award, Poetry (Magical Negro)
  • California Book Award, Poetry (Magical Negro)
  • California Book Award Finalist, Young Adult (Who Put This Song On?)
  • National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
  • Goodreads Choice Nominee, Poetry (There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé)
  • Writers Guild of America – West
  • American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers