Taija Morgan has been a professional fiction editor since launching her editing business in 2013 after graduating university, and she has been a devoted writer her entire life. She has Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology (Honours) and Sociology (Criminology) from the University of Calgary, Alberta, that lend realism and depth to her dark, twisted fiction.

She served as editor of the Crime Writers of Canada’s 40^th Anniversary anthology Cold Canadian Crime, as well as many other excellent novels by very talented authors, highlighted on her editing page.

A Canadian author, Taija has always been active in her writing communities and volunteer pursuits. She was a long-time member of Calgary Crime Writers, and she currently serves as a board member and Author Liaison for the Wordbridge Writers’ Society of Lethbridge. In this role, she coordinates presenters, supports grant-writing efforts, built the organization’s website, and launched scholarship and student discount programs to foster an inclusive space for all writers. Taija has been awarded multiple Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) literary grants, and she has also helped secure substantial charity grant funding toward mental health initiatives in Alberta. She offers coaching on grant applications, writing, editing, finding an agent, mastering your craft, getting involved in your writing community—you name it!

She is represented by agent Oli Munson with A.M. Heath, Britain’s oldest independent literary agency, founded in 1919 by Audrey Heath and Alice May Spinks, two trailblazing women who challenged the conventions of publishing.

Taija’s short stories and non-fiction articles have been published in various anthologies, magazines, and podcasts. These include:

• Prairie Devil anthology (“The Cloven-Hooved Beast,” Prairie Soul Press, TBA)
• Thirteen Podcast (“Break Into Pieces,” audio podcast, TBA 2025)
• Untold Tales podcast Episode 159 (“Gold Digger,” audio podcast, 2025)
• Thirteen Podcast (“Naughty List,” audio podcast, 2024)
• Max Blood’s Mausoleum quarterly magazine, Issue 3 (“Break Into Pieces,” Max Blood Publishing, 2024)
• Thirteen Podcast Patreon Exclusive podcast episode (“Shipwrecked,” audio podcast, 2024)
• Bad Spirits anthology (“The Blue Ghost,” edited by Clay Vermulm & Tori V. Rainn, 2024)
• Nocturnal Transmissions podcast Episode 174 (“Gold Digger,” audio podcast, 2024)
• Solstice in Purgatory anthology (“The Naughty List,” Seventh Terrace Press, 2023)
• The Wordsmiths anthology (“Shipwrecked,” Hollow Oak Press, 2023)
• Nocturnal Transmissions podcast Episode 163 (“The Crown,” audio podcast, 2023)
• After the Gloaming podcast Episode 7 (“Arsenic & Old Men,” audio podcast, 2023)
• Kaidankai podcast (“The Blue Ghost,” audio podcast, 2023)
• Thirteen Podcast (“Never Walk the Tracks at Night,” audio podcast, 2023)
• Bards and Sages Quarterly magazine (“Arsenic & Old Men,” Bards & Sages, 2023)
• Etherea Magazine issue #16 (“The Crown,” Etherea, 2023)
• Penitent’s Gold anthology (“Gold Digger,” Seventh Terrace Press, 2022)
• Prairie Witch anthology, Prix Aurora Award finalist anthology/related works 2023 (“Never Walk the Tracks at Night,” Prairie Soul Press, 2022)
• The Rabbit Hole V anthology (“The Blue Ghost,” 2022)
• Tales to Terrify podcast Episode 548 (“Eat Your Rage,” audio podcast, 2022)
• Prairie Gothic anthology, Prix Aurora Award finalist anthology/related works 2021 (“Arsenic & Old Men,” Prairie Soul Press, 2020)
• When Words Collide’s In Places Between anthology (“The Crown,” 2019)
• Opal Writers’ Magazine (Regular Contributor of Non-Fiction Writing Articles, 2018–2019)

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Je remercie le Conseil des arts du Canada pour son soutien.
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