About this episode

Morgan Day discusses her debut novel and the interplay between bodies and built structures.

Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel, The Oldest Bitch Alive , is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US. “We tend to think of our bodies as having barriers, but we’re actually very porous. We’re in this constant state of becoming and effecting our environment, and our environment is constantly affecting and infecting us. I wanted to put these ideas on the page in a story, not only through living creatures, but through built structures too.” –MD Image credit: “Ungodly” by Ambera Wellman, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Morgan Day

Topics covered

• architecture
• literary fiction
• body and environment
• storytelling
• debut novel

Keywords

• architecture writing
• literary fiction
• debut novel
• environment
• story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Akoya Publishing, Astra House

Books & works: The Oldest Bitch Alive

Places: Tucson Arizona

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