C.E. Morgan

Who is C.E. Morgan?

C. E. Morgan is an American author born in 1976. The author of the novel All the Living, she was a recipient of the National Book Foundations 5 under 35 award and a 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship. In 2010, she was also named by The New Yorker magazine as one of America’s 20 Best Writers Under 40.

As an undergraduate, Morgan studied voice at Berea College, a tuition-free labor college for students from poor and working-class backgrounds in Appalachia. In exchange for a free education, all students work for the college while enrolled. Morgan also attended Harvard Divinity School, where she studied literature and religion. She wrote All the Living while at Harvard. She lives in Kentucky.

In 2012 Ms. Morgan won a United States Artists Fellow award. In 2013, she won a Whiting Writers' Award.