About Li Yiyun

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist and the author of the California Book Award-nominated young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and California Book Award. Parker's work has appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, Best American Poetry, and Playbill. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and cofounder the Other Black Girl Collective with Angel Nafis. Morgan lives in Los Angeles.