Morgan was born and raised in the Southeastern United States, her father's work carrying them all over the Tennessee Valley. She attended 4 different elementary schools all before fifth grade, before her family finally settled on her maternal grandfather's farm. The Robins Wonderland Farm was a small cattle ranch in rural Tennessee spanning hundreds of acres of hilly pastures and pockets of forests. Growing up there, Morgan worked summers and weekends with her family to run the farm and harvest their small garden.
She did not find her heart's calling until 6th grade, where she discovered a love of reading that went beyond what most of her peers could understand. She devoured books in single sittings, entire series in days. Growing up, her favorite authors at the time were J.K Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Tamora Pierce, and Shannon Hale. She loved all things fantasy, magic, and dragons.
Morgan wrote her first story in 7th grade, sharing it only with her closest friends. By the time she was in high school, she was writing the story of her heart, "Those Cursed Few". While the first edition of the book was not completed until her college years, the characters and their stories played in her mind every night.
After graduating from high school, Morgan went on the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she obtained her bachelors in nursing science. After graduating in 2018, she moved back to Tennessee and married her college sweetheart. They settled in for three years, Morgan working as a nurse in a local hospital and her husband teaching at the local community college. That was until something changed the world as they knew it forever... COVID-19.
Morgan's husband was pushed from campus into online-teaching, and a new opportunity presented itself to Morgan: Travel Nursing. With nothing to keep them rooted in Tennessee, they spent the next 2.5 years traveling around the southeastern united states. They worked both close by and more distantly in states like Virginia and Florida. Fighting COVID-19 in those years was unlike anything Morgan had experienced before. As they traveled, Morgan experienced new cultures, bright ideas, and a greater understanding of humankind as a whole.
She spent over a year in Fort Myers, Florida. To a farm girl, the beach felt like an eternal vacation. But the dream was shattered as Hurricane Ian hit where she was working head-on. As it was her first hurricane, Morgan did not know what to expect. She signed up to work at the hospital for the duration of the storm and sent her husband (and two beagles) packing for the far side of the state. What she saw and experienced during and after that storm changed her.
They lived without power for two weeks. The beach was decimated, entire buildings swept away in 14' swells. The hospitals were being evacuated. Looters were everywhere, and not a single gas station was stocked. Military agencies flooded the place both to save victims still trapped in the rubble as well as to bring much needed supplies to the broken communities. Morgan served as a nurse during these times, meeting patients whose lives had been completely decimated by the storm. So many people who had lost loved ones, suffered the loss of their homes and livelihoods.
Morgan and her family stayed in that community, working and serving for another eight months. When the summer came, COVID cases fell away at last and the state of emergency was declared to have ended. Morgan and her husband made the decision to return home to Tennessee and make a life for themselves there.
With her new experiences (both the wonderful and horrible), Morgan rekindled a world she had set aside in favor of reality- her book. And, this time, it stuck. After years of existing solely in her imagination, "Those Cursed Few" was finally ready for publication. This first book in her series is the culmination of years of imagination combined with hard work and experience. Morgan has worlds upon worlds waiting just behind her smile, and she is ready to share them all with you.
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