Morgan Baker

MORGAN BAKER is an award-winning writer and professor at Emerson College. Her memoir Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes (Ten16 Press) is about reinventing yourself, learning how to handle loss, and emerging from depression and was honored with the Memoir Magazine’s award for Family/Relationship category as well as one of the 100 notable memoirs from Shelf Media. Other work is featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Motherwell, The Brevity Blog, The Boston Parents’ Paper, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Talking Writing, The Bark, Cognoscenti, among many regional and national publications. She is the managing editor of The Bucket. She is the mother of two adult daughters, and lives with her husband and two dogs in Cambridge, where she quilts and bakes.