ABOUT
BRUCE MORROW is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer. In 1998, he co-founded the digital art collective scopOphilic, which created bespoke digital videos that were distributed on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. His short film “IN DREAMS BEGIN” won both the Best LGBTQ Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2023 Paris Short Film Festival. He has participated residencies at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Kimbilio Black Writers Retreat.
Morrow is former fiction editor at “Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters” and a co-editor of “Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent,” the first Black LGBTQ anthology published by a major NYC publishing house. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, Cleveland Scene, and various anthologies, such as “Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream,” “Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing,” and “Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land: A Multicultural Anthology of American Fiction.”
As a nonprofit leader, Morrow has worked with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), LitNYS, Epiphany: A Literary Journal, the Misty Copeland Foundation, The Trevor Project, GLAAD, Girl Scouts of the USA, Bank Street College of Education, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He serves on the Board of Directors of Girls Write Now and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Morrow has a B.S. in Biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University.
Link: Bruce Morrow artist resume