Nevada Humanities presents award-winning author Morgan Jerkins, who will read from her memoir Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. Wandering in Strange Lands tells the powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.

Morgan Jerkins is the author of The New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing, as well as Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, and Caul Baby. Wandering in Strange Lands has been selected by Nevada Humanities as a Nevada Reads featured book for 2023. She holds a Bachelor's in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jerkins is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Leader in Media alumna, a 2021 ASME Next recipient, and an ASME Award winner. Her short-form work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, ELLE, Vogue, and The Atlantic, among many other publications. She's currently based in New York and teaches at Princeton University.