hey, i’m morgan.

you’re probably wondering what the heck that means anyway. In short, it means i make art, write things, and tell stories asking big questions about what it means to be human.

I never planned on making art for eyes that aren’t mine. I actually thought I’d be a lawyer (ha). In fact, it was just days before taking the LSAT when I got a call from my dad saying my mom had been killed in a car accident. I was 22.

In the following days, months and years, everything I ever knew about myself began to unravel, as I started asking myself some of life’s big questions.

what does it mean to live?
what does it mean to die?
I don’t really have answers, But I’ll keep asking.

More than that, I started wondering why it was so hard to find people talking about this stuff. That’s how I got my start — with asking why.

it’s been years since my mother’s death. When I close my eyes I can still see her. If I focus hard enough I can still hear her voice and her contagious laugh. I can still conjure her smell and remember what it was like to lay my head on her chest. She was the reason I started this work, but a belief that all of us should be talking about the hard stuff is what keeps me doing it.

there are no neat bows to wrap this all up. some day i’m in it and other days i’m IN it. But most days, I’m just so happy to be alive and start conversations around things that matter. If there’s one thing these last few years have taught me, it’s that all good stories start with an unraveling.

the other bio

Morgan Brown is a writer, storyteller, photographer, and artist asking people to step into vulnerable spaces around connection, death, and the human experience. She fell into all of it accidentally, just by making things and doing projects she thought needed to be in the world. Eventually, people started calling her an artist.

She’s been featured on KQED radio, the Women on the Road Podcast, and in Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild, a book by She Explores. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums up and down the west coast of California including The California Academy of Sciences, The Museum of Art and History, and The Laundry. 

When she’s not making stuff she cares about, she’s probably covered in grease from working on her 1970 VW van, or is making photos with her medium format film camera. Either way, she thinks you should probably read her favorite book, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.