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Dr. Morgan Rose-Marie

Biography

Morgan Rose-Marie is a queer writer and an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University. She has a PhD from Ohio University and an MA from Colorado State University. Her creative work has been featured in The Normal School, Sonora Review, Entropy, Bending Genres, Thin Air Magazine, and Heavy Feather Review

Education

PhD, Ohio University, 2023

Major: English/Creative Writing

MA, Colorado State University, 2017

Major: English/Creative Nonfiction

Certificate: Alt. Licensure – Secondary Education, Santa Fe Community College, 2012

Major: Secondary Education

BA, Miami University, 2010

Major: Journalism; Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs

Teaching

ENGL 4490

Creative Writing Capstone, Spring 2026

ENGL 4900R

Directed Readings, Spring 2026

ENGL 3450

Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing, Spring 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Spring 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Spring 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Spring 2026

ENGL 2250

Introduction to Creative Writing, Spring 2026

ENGL 2250

Introduction to Creative Writing, Spring 2026

Presentations

Rose-Marie, Morgan , CHSS Back-to-School Great Ideas for Teaching Round Table, "Audio Feedback", CHSS Teaching Committee. (August, 2024)
Rose-Marie, Morgan , UASAL Annual Conference 2024, "The Befores & Afters_ A Lyric Memoir", Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, SLC. (March 23, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Rose-Marie, Morgan , "We Spread" . Dunes Review.
Rose-Marie, Morgan , "Settle Road" . Permafrost.
Rose-Marie, Morgan , (2025) "Maw by the Sea" . HAD. https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the-maw-by-the-sea
Rose-Marie, Morgan , (2024) "Animals We Become" (vol. Vol. 68). Tampa Review. https://tampareview.org/
Rose-Marie, Morgan , (2024) "Linear Foreign Body" (Issue: Issue 126). 34thParallel. https://34thparallel.net/
Rose-Marie, Morgan , (2024) "The Fishbowl" (Issue: Issue 57). Talking River Review. https://talkingriverreview.com/

Awards

2025 PRISM International Creative Nonfiction Contest - Shortlisted

PRISM International - September 12, 2025

PRISM international is a literary magazine located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Vancouver, BC). Our mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and The Journey Prize Stories, amongst other noted publications.

Best of the Net Nomination

After Happy Hour Review - August 30, 2025

A journal can nominate up to two pieces of CNF, which means that After Happy Hour Review judged my essay ("Finger-Pointing" to be one of the top two essays they published this year.

"The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing." (https://bestofthenetanthology.com/about/)

Certificate of Recognition

UVU Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT) - April 8, 2025

Mentored three creative writers in their reading at SCULPT's showcase event (one I nominated, one I provided feedback on her work prior to the reading, and one self-nominated after I encouraged the class to do so).

2024 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize - Finalist

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts - December, 2024

For my essay "He Knows_ The Dog Dies in This One"

Creative Nonfiction Book - 2nd Place

Utah Original Writing Competition / SLCC - November, 2024

for The Befores & Afters_ A Memoir

Creative Nonfiction Essay - 2nd Place

Utah Original Writing Competition / SLCC - November, 2024

For "Fata Morgana"