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Susan Brind Morrow is an author and poet who has written extensively on language and metaphor drawn from the natural world. Morrow studied Greek, Latin, Arabic, and hieroglyphic texts as an undergraduate and graduate student in Classics at Columbia University. Morrow first went to Egypt as an archaeologist on the Dakhleh Oasis Project and continued to live and study in Egypt and Sudan. This decade of work became her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, one of three finalists for the PEN Award in 1998. Morrow’s analysis, translation, and commentary of the hieroglyphic text in the Pyramid of Unis, The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2015. Morrow is the author of Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World. Morrow’s work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Nation, The Seneca Review, Peripheries, Best American Poetry, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Morrow is a recipient of the 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Chatham, New York.