This is Black Mountain Institute Conversations, a series of interviews produced by Nevada Public Radio’s Desert Companion in collaboration with the Black Mountain Institute. Here, Desert Companion Editor Heidi Kyser talks with BMI’s Shearing Fellows about their passions, inspirations, community initiatives, and … of course … their writing.
This episode features Morgan Thomas. Their first story collection, Manywhere, was published by MCD x FSG Books January 2022. It’s a fictionalized, semi-autobiographical recounting of the lives of nine people in the American South. Through first-person storytelling, their writing breathes life into tales about belonging, the cost of authenticity, and the universal search for identities that resonate.
