Sterling

by Morgan Christie

“Imagine,” Morgan Christie writes, using the word as a mantra and an invocation, a call to what is beautiful in a hard world.

36 pages, Paperback

Published May 29, 2019

About the author

Morgan Christie's work has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian, Prism International, Room, Hawai'i Review, Sports Literate, and other journals. She is the author of a full-length short story collection 'These Bodies', which was nominated for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award in fiction, and four poetry chapbooks. She is the winner of the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Award, the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize (Jan 2024), and the 2023 Howling Bird Press Book Award (Nov 2023). Her picture books 'I, Too, Am Here' (Second Story Press, 2024) and 'Counting Cho Cho' (Groundwood Books, 2026) are forthcoming. Morgan's work has been featured in such outlets as Buzzfeed, NBC News, Poets&Writers, LA Weekly, The London Post, Yahoo News, NY Weekly, Broadway World, the National Poetry Day exhibit, and others.

Reviews

[Shon Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of truth, and a sort of despair that so many are oblivious to. A great collection, I am surprised more people have not heard of this superb piece of writing.