Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature (December 9, 2025 from One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster). He writes a newsletter about forthcoming books called The Frontlist.
Adam is represented by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management. He is also the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.
He is a core faculty member at StoryStudio Chicago and has taught writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. In 2018, he won the James Friend Memorial Award by the Society of Midland Authors for literary criticism, as well as a National City and Regional Magazine Award for his work in Chicago magazine. He’s a proud member of the Caxton Club.
Adam Morgan 