Megan Morrison is an award -winning short story writer and poet. Her stories have been been published in FRONT Magazine, produced by the artist-run centre Western Front and BTWN Magazine, for which she won the 2024 BTWN Literary Prize. Her poem Sorry I Couldn’t Come To Your Baby Shower won first place in Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest and Some Questions won third place in Grain Magazine’s 2024 Short Grain Contest. Megan’s writing has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the 2022 Writers’ Trust Mentorship Program. She is currently completing her first collection of short stories.

Megan’s writing is influenced by disjointed conversations, art history, neurology, moody forests, and weird fairy tales. She likes it when humour bumps up against gravitas and adds complications. On her nightstand you’ll find books by Joy Williams, Helen Oyeyemi, César Aira, Sheila Heti, and Barbara Comyns. She’ll try to update this list, but please forgive her if she forgets. When not hammering away at writing, Megan also works as a speech-language pathologist and opera singer. Neither of these jobs actually feel that far away from writing though. It probably all comes down to an obsession with language.

Megan is a descendent of European settlers who came to Canada from the Outer Hebrides, Northern Ireland, and Wales. She was born in Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon and grew up in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. While she still keeps a toehold in Vancouver, she now lives (mostly?) on Pender Island in W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) territory, surrounded by the beautiful Salish Sea.