Saretta Morgan

Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. Her work considers the ecologies and forms of intimacy that develop in the wake of United States militarization. She is author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017). Her debut full-length collection, Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press, 2024), was written while she lived between the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts and was processing her own history with the U.S. military and carceral systems.  

Morgan has produced interactive multimedia experiences for audiences across the U.S., using engagement with texts to catalyze explorations of physical space and social connection. She has featured this work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Dia Beacon, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. 

Morgan is the 2024–25 Distinguished Visiting Writer at Arizona State University’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and a 2024 Grants to Artists awardee from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her work has also received support from the Jerome Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Headlands Center for the Arts, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the POWERHOUSE Residency.

Morgan lives on Muscogee lands in Atlanta. In February 2025, she will serve as Guest Editor of Poem-a-Day.