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Morgan Talty is a Penobscot writer and an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine in Orono.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Morgan Talty was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and lived there until he was six. He and his mother then moved to the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine where he lived until the age of eighteen. He started studying creative writing in community college.^[2] Talty graduated from Dartmouth College and Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Career

He teaches at Stonecoast^[3] and at the University of Maine.^[4] His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Granta, RED INK and The Georgia Review.^[5][6]

Night of the Living Rez (2022)

Night of the Living Rez was published July 5, 2022 by Tin House Books.

The book received starred reviews from Booklist,^[7] Kirkus Reviews,^[8] and Publishers Weekly.^[9] Publishers Weekly ultimately named it one of the top ten works of fiction published in 2022.^[10] Further, Night of the Living Rez won the New England Book Award for Fiction^[11] and was a runner-up for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize.^[12] It's also a finalist for The Story Prize.^[13] It was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre,^[14] and the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.^[15]

Publications

Books

• Night of the Living Rez, Tin House Books (July, 2022)^{[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

Short Stories

• "The Prepper" in Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (September, 19th, 2023)^[25]

Awards

• 2021 Narrative Prize^[26]
• 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.^[27]

Personal life

Talty is married and has one son named Charlie.^[28]

References