Morgan Talty

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.

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. Talty graduated from Dartmouth College and Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Career
He teaches at Stonecoast and at the University of Maine. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Granta, RED INK and The Georgia Review.

Night of the Living Rez (2022)
Talty's first book, Night of the Living Rez, was published July 5, 2022 by Tin House Books.

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

Books

 * Night of the Living Rez, Tin House Books (July 2022)
 * Fire Exit, Tin House Books (June 2024)

Short Stories

 * "The Prepper" in Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (September 2023)

Awards

 * 2021 Narrative Prize
 * 2022 John Leonard Prize
 * 2022 New England Book Award for Fiction
 * 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction shortlisted
 * 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize shortlisted
 * 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

Personal life
Talty is married and has one son named Charlie.