Morgan Talty
HE | HIM | HIS
- Stonecoast MFA Faculty
Education
- MFA, University of Southern Maine
- 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 collection Night of the Living Rez (Tin House Books) won the 2022 New England Book Award in Fiction. His work has appeared in Granta, 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, Creative Writing, 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 at The Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine. Visit his website.
Selected Publications
Books:
- Night of the Living Rez: Stories, Tin House Books, 2022
Nonfiction:
- “Belongings” in Decor Maine, 2022
- “One Edit: An Essay on Craft” in Shenandoah, 2022
- “The Gambler” in Narrative Magazine, May 15, 2021
- “Story, Speak” in Shenandoah, March 3rd, 2020
Short Stories:
- “The [Unintelligible] in The Georgia Review, forthcoming
- “Houses” in The Idaho Review, forthcoming 2021
- “A Thin Smoke Rises” in Hunger Mountain Issue #25: Art Saves, March 2021
- “Food for the Common Cold” in Narrative Magazine, Fall 2020
- “The Citizenship Question: We the People” in The Georgia Review, Spring 2020
- “The Blessing Tobacco” in TriQuarterly Issue 157 Winter 2020
- “The Blessing Tobacco” excerpted in Literary Hub: The Best of the Literary Internet, January 21, 2020
- “Earth, Speak” in Shenandoah, Volume 69 Number 1, Fall 2019
- “The Name Means Thunder” in The Georgia Review, Fall 2019
- “In a Jar” in Narrative Magazine: Story of the Week, May 18, 2019
- “Safe Harbor” in Narrative Magazine: Winter 2019
- “Burn” in Narrative Magazine: Story of the Week, July 13, 2018
- “Smoked Blood” in The Stonecoast Review: Spotlight, October 1, 2017
- “Smokes Last” in The Whitefish Review: Rising Voices, October 21, 2017
- “Night of the Living Rez” in RED INK: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Humanities, April, 2017
Education
- MFA, University of Southern Maine
- BA, Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
- AA, Liberal Arts, Eastern Maine Community College