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. Her latest book, Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon won the 2025 Utah Book Award and Library of Congress “Great Reads” Utah selection.
She is the winner of the 2026 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writer’s Award and the 2024 Entrada Institute Writer-in-Residence. These awards support her forthcoming books Riverside: Becoming a Citizen of the Colorado River Watershed (Torrey House Press, 2027) and Desert Maverick: The Life of Archaeologist Ann Axtell Morris (Lyons Press, 2028).
Sjogren’s 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 Grant and a 2024 BYU Charles Redd Center Independent Research and Creative Works Award.
Sjogren is the co-founder of Glen Canyon Backcountry Club hiking and backpacking tours. She is based in Southern Utah’s canyon country and migrates seasonally throughout the Colorado River watershed.
Read more on Wild Words (Substack) and Instagram @morgan.sjogren. For speaking and book event inquiries visit MorganSjogren.com.
Awards and Residencies
2026 Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writer’s Award Winner
2025 Library of Congress Utah “Great Reads” Selection
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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