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Episode 314 - Morgan Christie - Boolean Logic - Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer

Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer

Morgan Christie's book is in conversation with various themes including race, gender inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and others as questions regarding how experiences define us are viewed through a BOOLEAN LOGIC lens, where sums do not always equal their parts. These essays intertwine sport, family, and community and other aspects that assist in shaping identities through lineage and the lessons we take from them.

Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Family & Relationships. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.

About the Author

Morgan Christie's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Room, Callaloo, The Hawai'i Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Variations on a Lobster's Tale, was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize, and her first full-length short story manuscript, These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction.

Her most recent poetry chapbook, when they come (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize recipient, and her collection People Without Wings (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize. Her new short story collection, Boolean Logic, is the winner of the 2023 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize. Her novella Liddle Deaths (Stillhouse Press) is due out in 2024. Christie currently splits her time between North Carolina and Toronto.

To learn more, please visit

https://www.morganchristiewrites.com/
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