Edgar Morales

Edgar Morales was born and raised in Los Angeles and is the son of Mexican parents. A recent graduate from Dartmouth College, where he earned a B.A. in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing. 

His work has appeared in Hipócrita Lector, The Nassau Literary Review, Frontier Poetry, and Hands that Speak: Voices from the Upper Valley Dairy Farms, a bilingual collection of investigative journalism, critical essays, and photography focused on the migrant workers who labor at six dairy farms in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley.

Morales is the winner of the 2023 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for his poem “Swim.”