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Saretta Morgan
Saretta Morgan is the author of the chapbooks, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017) as well as the full-length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Three Count Pour/Selva Oscura, 2020.) Her most recent writing considers Black migration to the southwest, particularly as it relates to land, Indigenous history and contemporary border policies. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Saretta is a poetry editor at Aster(ix) Journal as well as the African American Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she volunteers with the immigration detention center visitation program, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, and the humanitarian aid initiatives of No More Deaths Phoenix. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.