Robert Morgan, author of the award-winning novel GAP CREEK, is a native of the North Carolina mountains. He was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors. He is an accomplished poet, novelist, and short story writer and has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South. GAP CREEK won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and his earlier novel THE TRUEST PLEASURE was a finalist for the same award.
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New and upcoming books
Novels
The Hinterlands (1994)
The Truest Pleasure (1995)
This Rock (2001)
Brave Enemies (2003)
Chasing the North Star (2016)
The Truest Pleasure (1995)
This Rock (2001)
Brave Enemies (2003)
Chasing the North Star (2016)
Collections
Zirconia Poems (poems) (1969)
Red Owl (poems) (1972)
Land Diving (poems) (1977)
Groundwork (poems) (1979)
At the Edge of the Orchard Country (poems) (1987)
The Blue Valleys (1989)
Sigodlin (poems) (1990)
Green River (poems) (1991)
The Mountains Won't Remember Us (1992)
Wild Peavines (poems) (1997)
The Balm of Gilead Tree (1999)
Topsoil Road (poems) (2000)
The Strange Attractor (poems) (2004)
Terroir (poems) (2011)
Dark Energy (poems) (2015)
The Oratorio That Was Time (2022)
In the Snowbird Mountains (2023)
Collected Early Poems of Robert Morgan (poems) (2024)
Red Owl (poems) (1972)
Land Diving (poems) (1977)
Groundwork (poems) (1979)
At the Edge of the Orchard Country (poems) (1987)
The Blue Valleys (1989)
Sigodlin (poems) (1990)
Green River (poems) (1991)
The Mountains Won't Remember Us (1992)
Wild Peavines (poems) (1997)
The Balm of Gilead Tree (1999)
Topsoil Road (poems) (2000)
The Strange Attractor (poems) (2004)
Terroir (poems) (2011)
Dark Energy (poems) (2015)
The Oratorio That Was Time (2022)
In the Snowbird Mountains (2023)
Collected Early Poems of Robert Morgan (poems) (2024)
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction show
Award nominations
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Robert Morgan recommends

In the Fullness of Time (2025)
Terry Roberts
"In the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, in the county that has given us the most distinguished fiddlers, Terry Roberts sets a story of murder, graft, political corruption, and families with long memories and secrets. In the Fullness of Time is a novel of betrayal, where crime is close to home, but also of courage, integrity, and long-delayed love, in prose from the place where the music was born."

Gods of Howl Mountain (2018)
Taylor Brown
"A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction."

The Summer That Melted Everything (2016)
Tiffany McDaniel
"A bold and surprising debut...warning us not to be too quick in judging what is evil and what is good."
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