Morgan Sjogren is an award-winning author and journalist. An intrepid explorer, she writes about Western lands and water through a lens of history, culture, science, and adventure. Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon won the 2025 Utah Book Award and Library of Congress “Great Reads” selection.
She is the winner of the 2026 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writer’s Award and the 2024 Entrada Institute Writer-in-Residence. Her stories and photographs are published in Adventure Journal, Archaeology Southwest, Arizona Highways, bioGraphic, Patagonia, Reasons to be Cheerful, and Sierra Magazine. Her reporting received a 2022 Water Desk Grantand a 2024 BYU Charles Redd Center Independent Research and Creative Works Award.
Sjogren shares her Wild Words and explorations on Substack and on Instagram @morgan.sjogren. She is based in Southern Utah and migrates seasonally throughout the Colorado River watershed.
Awards and Residencies
2026 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writer’s Award Winner
2024 Artists of Utah 15 Bytes Award Winner for Creative Non-Fiction
2024 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Independent Research and Creative Works Award
2024 Entrada Institute Writer-in-Residence 2022 Water Desk Grant for Colorado River reporting
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