Morgan Talty

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize American Academy of Arts & Letters Sue Kaufman Prize The New England Book Award National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Chautauqua...

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another. From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched...

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with...

A TIME, The New Yorker, ELLE, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar Best Book of the Year Finalist: 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Longlisted for 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for...