About the Author

John Morgan spent many years growing up in the small coastal town of Seabrook, Texas, during a time when life moved at the pace of the tides and summer seemed endless. Long before waterfront developments and busy highways transformed the shoreline, Seabrook was a place of shrimp boats, weathered piers, quiet neighborhoods, and broad expanses of open water stretching toward the horizon.

As a boy, John spent countless days exploring Galveston Bay, fishing from docks, wandering shell roads, and sailing the bay beneath the bright Texas sun. Those long summer days on the water left an indelible mark on him and became the inspiration for many of the memories, emotions, and settings that find their way into his writing. Like the town he loved, John changed with the passing years, carrying with him the lessons, friendships, and adventures that shaped his youth.

After a long and successful career spanning more than four decades in the municipal solid waste industry, John retired and turned his attention to pursuits that had always been waiting just beyond the horizon. Writing became a natural extension of his lifelong love of storytelling, history, and the people and places that leave lasting impressions on our lives.

His debut novella, Stars Over Redfish Island, draws upon the sights, sounds, and spirit of the Texas Gulf Coast he remembers so vividly. Through Caleb's journey, John explores themes of family, courage, friendship, growing up, and the quiet moments that often become our most treasured memories.

Today, John lives in Beasley, Texas, with his wife Linda and their three Australian Shepherds who keep life interesting. When he is not writing, he enjoys reading, studying family history, exploring new technology, and reflecting on the remarkable changes he has witnessed throughout a lifetime along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Though the shoreline has changed and many familiar landmarks have faded into memory, the spirit of those endless summers on Galveston Bay still lives on. It is that spirit of adventure, wonder, and possibility that John hopes to share with every reader who opens the pages of his books.

The Texas Gulf Coast that shaped John Morgan is a landscape unlike any other in American literature — not the dramatic cliffs of the Pacific or the rocky shores of New England, but something quieter and stranger: a low, flat world of tidal flats and cordgrass marshes, of pelicans and roseate spoonbills, of water that is never quite still and skies that seem to go on forever. It is a coast that rewards patience and attention, and those are the qualities John brings to his writing.

Growing up in Seabrook in the 1970's meant growing up in a community still defined by the water — by the shrimping industry, by the rhythms of the bay, by the kind of self-reliance that comes from living close to a landscape that does not always cooperate. John watched Seabrook change: the marinas that replaced the shrimp docks, the subdivisions that spread across the salt meadows, the slow transformation of a working waterfront into something more recreational and less essential. That sense of a vanishing world runs through everything he writes.

John came to fiction writing late, after a full career and a full life, and he brings to it the perspective of someone who has had time to understand what matters. He is not interested in plot for its own sake, or in the kind of storytelling that mistakes speed for depth. What interests him is the texture of lived experience — the specific weight of a particular place at a particular moment in time — and the way that texture shapes the people who grow up inside it. That is what he is trying to preserve on the page.