Robert Morgan has written the novels Gap Creek, which won the Southern Book Award for Fiction, and The Truest Pleasure, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable.  Morgan’s works also include The Hinterlands, This Rock, and Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution. He has published nine volumes of poetry. A native of the North Carolina mountains, Morgan was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors. He teaches at Cornell University.