Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award, and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honor. His writing has appeared widely, including in The Georgia Review, Granta, and Lit Hub. Talty is an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in Levant, Maine.