Carmen Morgan
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Carmen Morgan, MFA. Carmen’s graduate thesis is a hybrid collection of essays and poetry entitled Mapping the Interior.
Carmen has a biology background and was a freelance writer for 12 years before beginning her MFA. In 2017, she produced her play Apricot Stones at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. She was an Alberta Playwrights’ Network Emerging Artist in 2021 and in 2022, her play Dante’s Door received honourable mention from the Playwrights Guild of Alberta, and was produced for stage at the Brave New Playwrights Festival on Granville Island. While in the program, she discovered new-found access to and a love for poetry. She has published in Avenue Magazine and Paper/Cuts and received a Confluence Editor’s Choice Award for her non-fiction work.
Mapping the Interior is a self-reckoning, exploring the multiple selves that exist within one being. Through self-reflection, inquisition and research, the collection asks both big and small questions, drawing out conversations with the Wanderer, Daughter, Wife, Mother, Lover, Mortal and Heiress. It draws on inspiration from Leslie Jamieson’s Empathy Exams and Allison Yarrow’s 90s Bitch, getting honest about the stories we tell ourselves and what we inherit. Narrative, dialogue and scene are used to investigate a subject, while poetic forms are used to convey what goes observed, but unsaid, ultimately turning toward self-acceptance.
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