Morgan Christie's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Room, Callaloo, The Hawai?i Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Variations on a Lobster's Tale, was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize and her first full-length short story manuscript, THESE BODIES (Tolsun Books, 2020), was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction. Her most recent poetry chapbook, when they come (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize recipient and her collection People Without Wings (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize. Her newest poetry chapbook à genoux (Black Sunflowers Press) will be published later this year and her novella Liddle Deaths (Stillhouse Press) is due out in 2024. Morgan is currently based out of North Carolina and is at work on her second collection of short stories.