Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic, as well as the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Scientific American, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Inverse, Polygon, Game Informer, and elsewhere. He writes a weekly newsletter about forthcoming books called The Frontlist, and he’s also an editorial director at Policygenius.
Adam is represented by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management. He’s currently writing A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Ulysses, Margaret C. Anderson, and the Women Who Fought America’s First Modern Book Bans (forthcoming from One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster).
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.
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