Morgan Jerkins is an American writer and editor, born in 1992, who teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Her debut, This Will Be My Undoing (2018), is a collection of nonfiction essays and a New York Times bestseller. Her memoir, Wandering in Strange Lands, released in August 2020, traces her family's journeys from the American South during the Great Migration. She has also written the historical fiction Zeal.
