Jason Morphew

Jason Morphew is the author of the collections Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2024) and dead boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the chapbooks What to deflect when you’re deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017) and In Order to Commit Suicide (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). His poems have been published in Seneca Review, Lana Turner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Smartish Pace, among other journals. His essays and reviews have been published in The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, among other magazines and newspapers. 

Morphew started life in a mobile home in Pike County, Arkansas. He earned a BA in English literature from Yale University, an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in English Renaissance literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Morphew is also a singer-songwriter and a ghostwriter. He teaches at Stanford Online High School and lives with his family in Los Angeles.