Our Guest: February 10, 2015
Posted by Wes Brooks
on Feb 02, 2015
Benjamin Morris, Author
A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is a writer and researcher whose work – poetry, fiction, plays, and essays – appears in the United States and Europe.
He is the author of Coronary (Fitzgerald Letterpress, 2011) and Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A History of the Hub City (History Press, 2014). Previously the coeditor of three anthologies of poetry and fiction from Forest Publications in Edinburgh, his work appears in such venues as The Oxford American, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Orleans Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Scottish Review of Books.
Among other honors, he is the recipient of a Pushcart nomination, the Academy of American Poets Prize from Duke University, and the Chancellor’s Medal for Poetry from the University of Cambridge. His work has received fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and Tulane University, a residency from A Studio in the Woods, and in 2012, shortlisting for the Crashaw Prize for Poetry from Salt Publishing.
His research work in culture and geography is based at the Open University in the United Kingdom. A graduate of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, in 2012 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Presently, he is a member of the Mississippi Artist Roster.
You can reach him here, or occasionally, here.