morgan parker
assistant professor of english literature • swarthmore college
a poet, essayist, and novelist with five books, among them there are more beautiful things than beyoncé, magical negro, and you get what you pay for. she teaches english literature at swarthmore college.
bio from swarthmore college
read
- A Conversation with Morgan Parker — booth, butler university, 2026
- What Was Haunting Me Was Not Myself: A Conversation with Morgan Parker — los angeles review of books, 2024
- In Conversation: Morgan Parker & Rachel Long — granta, 2020
- Morgan Parker's 'Magical Negro' and the Multiplicity of Blackness — vice, 2019
- Morgan Parker on poetry and the everyday — the creative independent, 2016
watch
- 11th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Morgan Parker — uc santa cruz, 2020
- Morgan Parker, a reading — university of arizona poetry center, 2018
- There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé — gavagai, via poets & writers, 2017
- Morgan Parker, Poet: Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World — bric tv, via poets & writers, 2016
- Morgan Parker: Magical Negro — the cheeky natives
hear
- Morgan Parker vs. Now — vs, poetry foundation, 2019
- Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé — bookworm, kcrw, 2017
- Episode 23: Morgan Parker — commonplace, 2017
- Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith — the archive project, literary arts, 2017