Shauna M. Morgan

Shauna M. Morgan is a poet, scholar, and teacher of creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky in the United States. Both her scholarly work and her poetry explore the ecosystems of multi-ethnic Black life with attentio to the body, loss, grief, identity, and freedom in the natural world. Her poetry has appeared in A Gathering Together, Interviewing the Caribbean, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness, among other periodicals and anthologies. Her critical work has been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, South Atlantic Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies and elsewhere.

Shauna was awarded Interviewing the Caribbean’s inaugural Catherine James Palmer Poetry Prize, and she was a fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. Her chapbook, Fear of Dogs & Other Animals, was published by Central Square Press (Boston). Shauna resides in Lexington, Kentucky where she tends to a small provision ground and remains intrigued by the environmental linkages between her rural Afro-Indo-Jamaican upbringing and her US-Kentucky life.