C. E. Morgan

C.E. MORGAN is the author of the 2010 novel All the Living (Knopf Canada; Farrar, Straus & Giroux). She was a recipient of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award and a 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship. In 2010, she was also named by The New Yorker as one of America's "20 Best Writers Under 40." As an undergraduate, Morgan studied voice at Berea College, a tuition-free labour college for students from poor and working-class backgrounds in Appalachia. In exchange for a free education, students worked 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. In 2012, Morgan won a United States Artists Fellow award. In 2013, she won a Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in Kentucky.