Morris, Benjamin

Mississippi native Benjamin Morris is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and essayist whose work has appeared in the Oxford American, the Edinburgh Review and BBC Radio. A researcher at Open University and member of the Mississippi Artist Roster, he is the author of Coronary" (Fitzgerald Letterpress, 2011). Among other honors, he has received a Pushcart nomination, fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and Tulane University, and a residency from A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans."