Meet the Fellows
Morgan Thomas
Morgan Thomas is a writer from Gulf Breeze, Florida. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Electric Literature, them., the Kenyon Review Online, and Storyquarterly. They’ve received support from the Bread Loaf Work-Study Program and the Fulbright Foundation. Manywhere, their debut story collection, is forthcoming from publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s MCD imprint in January 2022.
Morgan earned a BA in English and a BS in Zoology from the University of Florida in 2014 and their MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon in 2016. In addition to their work as a writer, they have advocated for Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ communities for three years.
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Ben Winans
Ben Winans is an interdisciplinary artist who engages in old and new media to tell stories regarding his upbringing in Southern evangelical Christianity. Through his multimedia works, Ben offers a broad discussion on Christian nationalism, a mediation of cultural and national identity informed by his family’s missionary work in Africa and Japan, and the assertion that what we believe matters.
Ben has earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018 and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in 2021. His work began in 2014 as an Artist Assistant for Ben Sloat, and at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Ben is currently an Exhibitions Assistant for Stamps Gallery and was a Graduate Student Instructor for several art classes at Stamps School of Art & Design. Winan’s hard work has been recognized throughout the years through the John Roos Memorial Scholarship for Artists Working in the Humanities in 2017, the Smucker-Wagstaff Grant in 2019 and 2020, and the Jean-Paul Slasser Award for recognition of excellence, M.F.A. Thesis Project.
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