Julia Anna Morrison is a poet and filmmaker from Atlanta, GA. She is the author of the poetry collection Long Exposure, winner of the 2023 Moon City Poetry Prize, and her work is forthcoming in The Georgia Review and The Los Angeles Review. Morrison was awarded a 2024-2025 Collegiate Teaching Award at the University of Iowa, an Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant for a short film. She lives in Iowa City where she teaches screenwriting at the University of Iowa.
At MacDowell, Morrison completed a second poetry manuscript, made significant progress on a novella, and created a story-board for a short film.