Clare Morgan

Clare Morgan is a fiction writer and literary critic. Her collection of short stories, Scar Tissue, was published in 2022, alongside the republication of her earlier collection An Affair of the Heart. Her stories have been widely anthologized, and commissioned by BBC Radio 4. Her novel A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel award, and reflects her interest in creating fictions around real historical characters and events, in this case Virginia Woolf and Friedrich Nietzsche.

She has researched extensively the relation between poetry and business and her book What Poetry Brings to Business, coming from a research collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, was published by University of Michigan Press. Her ongoing work in the field is reflected in her continuing collaboration with BCG, in international presentations and workshops, and in her chapter ‘Thinking Beyond the Facts’ for the recent publication Humanizing Business (Springer, USA). An essay on the topic appeared in FastCompany and her research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Clare Morgan’s interest in writers and writing is evidenced in her academic essays on seminal figures such as Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather and George Orwell. She has worked closely with emergent writers inside and outside academia to help them develop their individual voices and take forward their writerly careers, and her paper ‘The Big Business of Creative Writing’ was presented at the international Writers and their Education symposium (Oxford University). She reviews occasionally for the Times Literary Supplement.