Susan Brind Morrow is an author and poet who has written
extensively on language and metaphor drawn from the natural world. Morrow
studied Greek, Latin, Arabic, and hieroglyphic texts as an undergraduate and
graduate student in Classics at Columbia University. Morrow first went to Egypt
as an archaeologist on the Dakhleh Oasis Project and continued to live and
study in Egypt and Sudan. This decade of work became her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the
Egyptian Desert, one of three finalists for the PEN Award in 1998. Morrow’s
analysis, translation, and commentary of the hieroglyphic text in the Pyramid
of Unis, The Dawning Moon of the Mind:
Unlocking the Pyramid Texts, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in
2015. Morrow is the author of Wolves and
Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World. Morrow’s work has appeared in
Harper’s, the New York Times, The Nation,
The Seneca Review, Peripheries, Best American Poetry, and Lapham’s
Quarterly. Morrow is a recipient of the 2022 Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and a former fellow of the Guggenheim
Foundation. She lives in Chatham, New York.
