Morgan Meis

Morgan Meis writes about art and culture for such magazines as n+1, Harper’s, and Slate. A contributor at The New Yorker and a recipient of the Whiting Award for nonfiction in 2013, Meis is the author of the Three Paintings Trilogy, which includes, along with The Fate of the Animals, The Drunken Silenus: On Gods, Goats, and the Cracks in Reality (2020), about a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, and The Grand Valley: On Going to Hell, to France, and Back to Childhood (2025), about a series of paintings by Joan Mitchell. He lives in Detroit.