Morgan Parker's first collection of poems,
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, was selected by Eileen Myles for The 2013 Gatewood Prize and is forthcoming from Switchback Books in 2015. Recent poems are forthcoming from
Tin House,
jubilat, and
Forklift, Ohio. A graduate of NYU's Creative Writing MFA program and a Cave Canem fellow, Morgan lives in Brooklyn with her dog Braeburn. She works as a poetry editor for
Coconut Magazine and Education Director at the
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA).