Susan Morgan has published extensively about art, design, and cultural biography. A longtime writer of magazine profiles and contributor to oral history projects, her interview subjects have ranged from Alison Saar to Eddie Izzard. As a researcher and interviewer, she worked with George Plimpton on Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, And Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career; Morgan’s varied interview subjects included writer Paul Bowles, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, and photographer Gordon Parks.

A former contributing editor at Interview, Mirabella, Elle, Metropolitan Home, and Aperture, Morgan serves as a contributing editor for East of Borneo, the online magazine of contemporary art, and its history, as considered from Los Angeles.

She is the author of Aperture monographs on Edward Weston and Martin Munkasci, Joan Jonas: I Want To Live In The Country (And Other Romances) for the Afterall One Work series, and, with photographer Dominique Vorillon, As Is: Noah Purifoy, Joshua Tree for East of Borneo Books.

In addition to writing artist monographs and catalogue essays, Morgan edited Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader and, with Kimberli Meyer, then Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, co-curated Sympathetic Seeing (2011), the first exhibition about the groundbreaking work of writer and social critic Esther McCoy.

Currently, Morgan and Tewa historian Dmitri Brown are working together on an intergenerational, cross-cultural project centered on One Hundred Wildflowers of the Pueblo Country with Tewa Indian Names and Uses, an unpublished, similarly collaborative project produced in 1935.