I am a Japanese and Korean American writer based in Brooklyn. My writing has received support from Tin House and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rookie Magazine, and more. I am currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at Brooklyn College. In 2025, I received Brooklyn College’s Himan Brown Award in Fiction and was a finalist for The Hopkins Review’s Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize.

I am also a fact-checker and journalist. Previously, I worked at The Atlantic as an associate editor with the Politics and Ideas desks. There, I wrote about the ripple effects of Japanese American reparations, the personal costs of California wildfires, and TikTok creators who film “eat with me” videos.

I got my start in journalism at my campus newspaper, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, where I served as editor-in-chief. At Hopkins, I studied creative writing and Italian and received the university’s Louis Azrael Fellowship in Communications. I was awarded West Chester University’s 2018 Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award for my poem “Phosphenes.”

Get in touch with me at morgan.ome [at] gmail.com