Blackwood, Morgan (b. 1984) is a Canadian-American writer and audio archivist based in Portland, Maine. Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Blackwood studied architectural history at Dalhousie University and sound design at Concordia, later cataloging wax cylinders and field recordings for a maritime museum. Their short fiction has appeared in small-press journals and genre magazines, and earlier books include The Silence Map (2018) and Beneath the Stair (2020). When not traveling to record bell towers and abandoned theaters, Blackwood volunteers with coastal preservation groups and teaches workshops on field recording.