Megan Morrison is an award-winning short story writer and poet. Her work has been published in Grain, Room, BTWN, and FRONT Magazines, and her poem Some Questions will be published by Biblioasis in Best Canadian Poetry 2026 in the fall of 2025. 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 completing a collection of short stories and prose poems.

Megan’s writing is influenced by moody forests, disjointed conversations, chaotic travel, art history, neurology, 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, Helen Oyeyemi, Roberto Bolaño, Sheila Heti, and Barbara Comyns. 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.