Morgan Talty
HE | HIM | HIS
- Stonecoast MFA Faculty
Education
- MFA, Ӱɴý
- BA, Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
- AA, Liberal Arts, Eastern Maine Community College
Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He received his BA in Native American Studies from Dartmouth College and his MFA in fiction from Stonecoast’s low-residency program. His debut story collectionNight of the Living Rez(Tin House Books) won the 2022 New England Book Award in Fiction. His work has appeared inGranta,The Georgia Review,Shenandoah,TriQuarterly,Narrative Magazine,LitHub, and elsewhere. A winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize, Talty’s work has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (2022). Talty is an Assistant Professor of English, CreativeWriting, and Native American Studies at The University of Maine at Orono and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing. Talty is also a Prose Editor atThe Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine. Visit his .
Selected Publications
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- Night of the Living Rez: Stories, Tin House Books, 2022
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- “Belongings” inDecor Maine, 2022
- “One Edit: An Essay on Craft” inShenandoah, 2022
- “The Gambler” inNarrative Magazine, May 15, 2021
- “Story, Speak” inShenandoah,March 3rd, 2020
Short Stories:
- “The [Unintelligible] inThe Georgia Review, forthcoming
- “Houses” inThe Idaho Review, forthcoming 2021
- “A Thin Smoke Rises” inHunger MountainIssue #25: Art Saves, March 2021
- “Food for the Common Cold” inNarrative Magazine, Fall 2020
- “The Citizenship Question: We the People” inThe Georgia Review, Spring 2020
- “The Blessing Tobacco” inTriQuarterlyIssue 157 Winter 2020
- “The Blessing Tobacco” excerpted inLiterary Hub: The Best of the Literary Internet, January 21, 2020
- “Earth, Speak” inShenandoah, Volume 69 Number 1, Fall 2019
- “The Name Means Thunder” inThe Georgia Review, Fall 2019
- “In a Jar” inNarrativeMagazine: Story of the Week, May 18, 2019
- “Safe Harbor” inNarrativeMagazine: Winter 2019
- “Burn” inNarrative Magazine: Story of the Week, July 13, 2018
- “Smoked Blood” inThe Stonecoast Review:Spotlight,October 1, 2017
- “Smokes Last” inThe Whitefish Review: Rising Voices, October 21, 2017
- “Night of the Living Rez” inRED INK: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Humanities, April, 2017
Education
- MFA, Ӱɴý
- BA, Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
- AA, Liberal Arts, Eastern Maine Community College