Megan Morrison’s writing has appeared in Grain, Room, BTWN, and FRONT magazines. She is delighted to announce that her debut story collection is being published by the good folks at NeWest Press and will be hitting bookshelves in the fall of 2027. Megan’s work has won first place in Room’s 2023 poetry contest and third place in Grain’s 2024 Short Grain contest. Her poem Some Questions was included in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, published by Biblioasis. Megan’s writing has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Trust Mentorship prize for fiction. She is currently writing her first novel.

Megan’s writing is influenced by moody forests, disjointed conversations, art history, neuroscience, and weird fairy tales. She likes it when humour bumps up against gravitas and adds complications. On her nightstand right now you’ll find books by Anne Carson, Teju Cole, Annie Ernaux, Silvina Ocampo, and Kate Zambreno. She’ll try to update this list, but please forgive her if she forgets. When not hammering away at her writing, Megan also works as a speech-language pathologist and opera singer. Neither of these jobs 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.