Jason Morphew

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Los Angeles, CA

California US

Email:

jlmorphew@ucla.edu

Website:

www.jasonmorphew.com

Twitter/X:

@EjectCityPoems

Author's Bio

Jason Morphew started life in a mobile home in Pike County, Arkansas. The Washington Post says his full-length collection dead boy is “presented with an edginess and sharp intelligence that makes the poems pop.” Morphew’s poems and essays have appeared in The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Seneca Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Lana Turner, among other journals and newspapers. Morphew lives with his family in Los Angeles and teaches at Stanford Online High School. His second full-length collection of poems, Eject City, is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada in September 2024.

Education:

University of California, Davis MFA

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:

Los Angeles Review of Books

Publishers Weekly

Poetry

Anthology:

UNDENIABLE: Writers Respond to Climate Change (Alternating Current Press, 2020)

Books:

Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2024)

Dead Boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018)

Chapbook:

What to deflect when you're deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017)

Journals:

Bellevue Literary Review

Big Muddy

Blue Fifth Review

Confrontation

Cortland Review

Foothill

Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion

Public Pool

Yes Poetry

Watch

Jason Morphew "Pike County"

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Lauren Kate, Joe Wenderoth, David Bruce Kramer, Miller Williams, Lexa Hillyer, Franklin Bruno, Meghan O'Rourke, Farnoosh Fathi, Helen Deutsch, Lowell Gallagher, Arthur L. Little, Jr., Frances E. Dolan.

What I'm reading now:

Agony by Joe Wenderoth, Spirit of Love by Lauren Kate

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Homelessness

Born in:

Hot Springs, AR

Arkansas

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Last update: Jun 01, 2024