M.J. (Marc) Morgenstern is a former journalist and TV news producer, and a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He was a finalist in the University of Arizona's Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and won four Emmy Awards for his work with CBS-owned TV stations in New York and Los Angeles. He is the author of a linked short story collection, Book of Greenblatt.

His short stories have been published in: Belmont Story Review, Passager, Still Points Arts Quarterly, Corners of the World: Of the Book Anthology, Soundings Review, JMWW, Blue Lyra Review and Valiant Scribe, among others. His stories have been performed twice by professional actors at LA’s prestigious New Short Fiction Series. M.J’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Daily News, The Christian Science Monitor, and Huffington Post, and been presented on the MOTH stage.

In addition to Warren Wilson College, his work has been supported by The Yale University Writer’s Workshop, The Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University’s Creative Writing program. Marc taught at the UCLA Wordcommandos writing workshop for veterans with PTSD and served as board chairman of the Santa Monica Public Library.

Relevant to his debut novel, Undertaken, M.J. spent extensive time in Seoul, Korea as the head of a start-up Internet company.