Photo by Sam White.
Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living.
They are the author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024) and the chapbooks Lights of Earth (2019) and Eat Pamphlet (2014). Their poems were anthologized in Pathetic Literature (2023), and most recently appeared in Changes Review and Footnotes. They’ve shared their work at The Poetry Project, Giorno Poetry Systems, and other spaces.
They put out the New Pinky zine in 2014, organized the mutual aid-based poetry press G L O S S from 2020 to 2021, and were a member of the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter from 2022 to 2025.
Originally from coastal Virginia, they live now in Brooklyn, New York.
contact
morgan.vo@proton.me
news
NYPL includes The Selkie in their Best New Poetry Books, April 2025.
Silas Jones recommends The Selkie in The Paris Review, December 2024.
Courtney Bush welcomes The Selkie into her fish-work canon in Annulet 8, Winter 2024.
The Selkie is available to borrow from BPL and NYPL.
