Author: Benjamin Morris
Bio: A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is a poet, writer, and researcher whose work appears in the United States and Europe. He is the author of Coronary (2011), Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A History of the Hub City (2014), and Ecotone (2017), and the editor or co-editor of four volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His writing appears in such venues as The Oxford American, The Rumpus, The New Orleans Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, The Weekly Standard, The Scottish Review of Books, and on BBC Radio. Among other honors, he has received a Pushcart nomination, the Academy of American Poets Prize from Duke University, and the Chancellor’s Medal for Poetry from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his Ph.D. His work has received fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and Tulane University, and a residency from A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans.