Morgan Day (She/Her)
Joanna JoyMorgan Day is a fiction and architecture writer. Her first novel, The Oldest Bitch Alive, was published in 2026 by Astra House in the US and Akoya Publishing in the UK. The Oldest Bitch Alive was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The Millions, Literary Hub, Our Culture, The Maris Review, and Debutiful. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Worms Magazine, Ecotone, Literary Hub, The Southampton Review, and Gulf Coast. While serving as Bjarke Ingels Group’s first in-house writer, she was the editor of Formgiving: An Architectural Future History, the third installment of the design firm’s bestselling trilogy published by TASCHEN in 2020.
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Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan
Book:
The Oldest Bitch Alive
Fiction / Literature
Astra Publishing House
March 2026
ISBN 9781662603372
Hardcover, 210 pages
“If there’s a more original novel published this year, I’ll be amazed.”—Suzi Feay, Financial Times
A polyphonic debut following an aging French bulldog and the parasitic worms that send her toward death — a singular, sly novel about form, freedom, interiors, and the matter by which we are composed and consumed.
Gelsomina is a French Bulldog who leads a routine life in a glass house. One day, she ingests an orb of parasitic worms who make an imperfect home inside her. Approaching death, yet filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently: her attachment to the designer-architect couple with whom she lives; the naive preoccupations of their younger French Bulldog, Zampanò; her feelings for an elusive fox; and the voids within and beyond her. The worms propel Gelsomina to plumb the meaning of her domestic existence and ask if her rebirth lies in the wild unknown outside the panes.
The Oldest Bitch Alive is a polyphonic story of containment refracting across scales. Revolving perspectives meditate on consciousness, theories of everything, multispecies narratives, philosophies of form and the immaterial, and other ways in which matter is composed and consumed. Gelsomina’s introspections culminate in an ecstatic sprint through a natural world she’s never seen, awakening the French Bulldog to the depths of love, reverence, death, and the bound self in dichromatic color. More/less
