I am a Japanese and Korean American writer based in Brooklyn. My writing has received support from the McCormack Writing Center (formerly 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