“Jason Taylor Morgan is an author whose prose traces life’s precarious and transformative journeys, crafting emotionally rich narratives that linger long after the final page. Known for his vivid imagery, immersive first-person voice, lyrical writing style, and intuitive storytelling, he explores the complexities of human experience with beauty, candor, and depth.
“His work invites readers to step inside the intimate terrain of struggle, resilience, and redemption—often touched by memory, magic, or longing. These are stories for readers who crave emotional truth, layered characters, and the quiet hope of becoming more fully oneself.”
About the Author
Jason Taylor Morgan is a storyteller at heart—a novelist whose work is rooted in voice, memory, emotional depth, and a lifelong search for truth. His fiction explores characters on the edge of transformation—often navigating trauma, love, identity, and the long arc of redemption. His later-in-life discovery of abstract painting became a natural extension of that same creative drive.
Born in Boston in 1955, Jason began writing stories at age eleven. He studied literature and writing at Bard College, where he was mentored by National Book Award winner Mary Lee Settle. Her influence—especially the belief that every great story begins with the soul of a character—continues to shape his work today.
Jason’s fiction is known for immersive first-person voices, lyrical prose, and protagonists who wrestle with inherited wounds, internal contradictions, and the challenge of becoming fully themselves. Though a Northerner, several of his novels are set in the American South—settings inspired by his mother’s vivid stories of her Virginia upbringing, full of beauty, repression, moral conflict, and emotional complexity. His work often blends literary fiction with elements of magical realism, psychological depth, and spiritual or musical undercurrents.
At 23, he left the U.S. with a one-way ticket to Europe and no plan other than to write and live passionately. He spent two years in London and Paris: writing his first novel, editing children’s books for Hamish Hamilton, and guest lecturing at Harrow College of Art and Technology. In Paris, he spent his days walking the streets, falling into profound experiences and synchronicities, absorbing everything, and his nights writing the Parisian sections of his novel in eccentric Left Bank hotels.
Over the years, Jason’s creative path has woven through many fields. He built a long career as a senior marketing and public relations agency executive in the tech sector, worked as a counselor for at-risk youth in a children’s psychiatric hospital, and spent a decade teaching consciousness and emotional healing. His novel O’Rourke, the Medicine Man is inspired by a five-year spiritual and personal road journey he took across the U.S. from 2010 to 2015.
Today, Jason lives, writes, and paints in Cloverdale, a small arts-focused town in Northern Sonoma County, CA. Jason has written six novels and is at work on his seventh. His most recent, Souls on Fire and Lonesome Dreams, is a dual narrative literary novel about music, identity, love, and survival.
At 70, he remains devoted to creative expression in all its forms—and to the mystery and meaning found in telling emotionally honest, redemptive, and liberating stories.