C. E. Morgan

C. E. Morgan studied English and voice at Berea College, KY, and holds an M.A. in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. Her first novel, All the Living, (2009), won the Weatherford Award as the outstanding fiction work depicting Appalachia and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway First Fiction Book Award, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction. She was also selected as one of the winners of the National Book Award’s “5 under 35” award for young writers and is included in the 2010 New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellow award, and a Whiting Writers’ Award.

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