Brian Morton

Brian Morton is an American fiction writer, essayist, and teacher based outside New York City. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and has taught at Bennington College and New York University. His novels include Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon, and his memoir is Tasha. He also wrote The Dylanist and Breakable You, and was a longtime editor at the magazine Dissent. His Black Lawrence Press book, Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, is a craft book on writing habits and practice. It was reviewed in The Massachusetts Review in 2025.