A teacher who has taught language, literature, and writing for over forty years, Joe Morgan has been selected twice by his colleagues as teacher of the year and has received the Illinois Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Joe was one of the last John Hay Fellows. He has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to study philosophy and humanities in secondary education. Dr. Morgan received his PhD in English Literature from Stafford University, London, UK.

Joe Richard Morgan is the author of Potato Branch and Into the Chilling Water. He has two daughters and a son and lives with his wife, Milli, in Mars Hill, North Carolina, and in Bluffton, South Carolina.