Morgan Bach lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara—Wellington in Aotearoa—New Zealand.
She is a graduate of the Masters programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and was the recipient of the 2013 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. In 2014, with Hannah Mettner and Sugar Magnolia Wilson, she co-founded the online poetry journal Sweet Mammalian.
Her first book, Some of Us Eat the Seeds, was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2015, and her second, Middle Youth in 2023.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing in long-form hybrid poetic non-fiction.
Author photos by Ebony Lamb
Details from the cover image of Middle Youth are from Karla Marchesi’s painting ‘A sense of an ending’. Find Karla’s incredible work at her website.
Contact: morgan.gwynneth@gmail.com
Morgan Bach 