poet & visual artist based in lexington, kentucky

Morgan Matchuny is a writer, visual artist, and poetry editor for Tiger Leaping Review. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and is the recipient of the James Baker Hall Scholarship for the 2026 Poetry Gauntlet workshop. Her work engages themes such as social justice, feminism, and the lived experience of addiction and neurodivergence, interrogating shame, survival, and transformation through a lens of resilience and defiance. She received her BA from the University of Kentucky in 2025.

Contact her at: morgan.r.matchuny@gmail.com