Michael Mahoney Memorial Reading: Saretta Morgan

Pratt’s Writing Department is proud to present our 2026 Michael Mahoney Memorial Reader, Saretta Morgan.

Saretta Morgan is the author of Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press, 2024) and the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017). Her work engages ecologies and forms of connectivity that develop alongside processes of U.S. militarization.

Over the past decade she has participated in veteran-led organizing with Veterans for Peace (NYC) and About Face: Veterans Against the War, as well as the humanitarian aid work of No More Deaths Phoenix, which provides direct support to address the death and suffering of migrants in the Sonoran Desert. Additionally, she has been fortunate to participate in, and learn from, Indigenous-led water protection and food sovereignty work, Black-led community healing initiatives, and trans-led support for detained migrants. She believes in a Free Palestine as part of the broader inevitability of LAND BACK for Indigenous peoples across the earth.

She leads workshops and designs interactive language-based programs for public and private settings. As a practice, she no longer uses her bio to validate cultural arms of the carceral state. However, contractually: She is the 2025–2026 Black Mountain Institute-Kluge Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Born in Appalachia and raised on military installations, she is a daughter of the South (east & west). She lives on Muscogee lands in Atlanta, GA where she trains in Capoeira and wild bird rehabilitation.

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