Ben Morris

I grew up in North East, Pennsylvania and eventually moved to the southwest where I received an MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I earned my Ph.D. in English from the University of North Dakota and specialized in creative writing and twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. I am the recipient of a Jon Cobain Fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute and won The Thomas McGrath Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Lake Effect, Cleaver Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, and others. I currently teach English at Appalachian State University and reside in the Blue Ridge Mountains with my partner and two adventurous children.