Morgan Parker was born on December 19, 1987 in California, is a Poet. Discover Morgan Parker net worth, Biography, Age, Height, Family and career updates.
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American poet, novelist and editor. Her poetry collections include Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro. Magical Negro won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of the young adult novel, Who Put This Song On. She is a member of The Other Black Girl Collective. In December of 2015 she was Poetry Foundation's featured blogger.
She was born and raised in Southern California. She completed her bachelor's degree in anthropology and creative writing at Columbia University. She got her MFA in poetry from New York University. Her debut collection, Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, was published in 2015 but released in the UK and US in 2021.
She was an editor at Amazon Publishing's units Little A and Day One. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University and is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! in New York. She is also the author of many essays and articles. Her morganapple Twitter account has 30,000 followers who can keep up with her live readings, personal life and her activist work. She won the Pushcart Prize in 2016.
In 2017 she returned to Southern California from New York. She has a dog named Shirley. She posted a picture with her father to Instagram in June of 2020.
She calls herself the black Wes Anderson.
