Morgan Thomas is the author of Mad Eden and the story collection Manywhere, which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Lambda Literary Prize for Transgender Fiction, and the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Their writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and The Yale Review. A graduate of the University of Oregon MFA program, they have also received fellowships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere.

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