Greta Morgan is a songwriter, storyteller, and multi-instrumentalist who began her career at age 16 and has performed worldwide since. Her first book, The Lost Voice, is out now on Harper One. She fronted Springtime Carnivore, Gold Motel, The Hush Sound, was a touring member of Vampire Weekend, and has performed with Jenny Lewis.

Greta’s writing explores identity, grief, spiritual connection, creativity as a form of healing, and the search for meaning and joy in turbulent times.

She lives in the Hudson Valley where she has been known to watch golden leaves float downstream on creeks for hours and say that every meal is the best meal of her life.

She teaches long-form online creativity workshops.

Find her on Instagram (@gretamorgan) and sign up for her newsletter above for updates. For contact, please email gretamorganworkshops@gmail.com or submit a message through the form.

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TEDX: How To Find Your Voice

What would happen if the thing that defined you disappeared overnight? Whether it’s our job, our abilities, or output—many of us meld our identities with the things we do, and often forget who we are in the process. Greta Morgan is a writer and musician whose musical projects include Vampire Weekend, Springtime Carnivore, and Gold Motel. In 2020, Greta was diagnosed with a disorder that completely changed her ability to sing. In this episode, she shares what her vocal loss and recovery taught her about her inner voice, and how we might find our voice and resilience in both art and the creative process.

I Lost Something In the Hills: A conversation with Greta Morgan about imperfection, wandering, and Why she loves the picasso quote “Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

NEW VOICE - Elevated Outdoors Summer 2022

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When you were facing this loss, what did you find out in the desert that helped you?

I would go into Zion Canyon every night—amazingly, no one, except Sarah, was there after eight o’clock–and I would just spend time with the animals, with the river, and listen. My whole life had been full of sound, of man-made sound, leading up to this moment: A record always playing. I played drums. I played guitar. I played piano. I sang. Now, my listeningbecame so powerful that when I was watching the Perseid meteor shower, I thought I could hear the stars. I would go to the wilderness areas outside the park and just wander alone for a day or two. Just being among all of the creatures of the natural world, I would see how purely they are authentically themselves. There’s no pretending to be anything else. It mirrored back to me all the ways that I had been pretending or that I had wanted to present some version of who I was.

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