About

My writing background includes an MFA from Arizona State University and my published memoir, Mind Without a Home:  A Memoir of Schizophreniapublished by Hazelden in 2013.  My writing has been published in various small literary magazines:  Delmarva Review, LocusPoint, Open Minds, Vortex, Passages, Quartet, and the Awakening Review. My  short story, “Pink Cadillac,” won The National League of American Pen Women Award in 2022.  I have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize for my short story and personal essay in Delmarva Review and once for my poem in Quartet.

The best pursuit I know is that of the word. Mostly in writing I don’t pursue horizons or sunsets, but the rusted edge of sewer drains or the gargoyle that warns off spirits prettier than itself. I write more of human made things than I do the natural world. I am obsessed with humans in all their manifestations, all their actions, all their art, all their possessions, and passions.

Writing is timeless. To live in the writing while the writing is occurring suspends the clock, the utility bill, the orange, or toast. I don’t know of a deeper meditative state that allows me to forget the color of my hair or my skin covering bone.

Sometimes I think maybe I need to accept the fact that I’d be better off delivering pizzas. But then I see the butterfly in the little girl’s palm, and I am hooked in trying to write that moment into a sentence.

I am challenged by schizophrenia. I want the world to know this in my most immediate writing. Television offers us views of people with mental illness. Inaccurate views that I want to change. Writing offers me the opportunity to write another version. 

I am single and live with my two cats Grams and Annie, Grams for my grandmother and Annie for my mother, in Scottsdale Arizona.

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kristinamorg215@gmail.com