Journalist. Author. Poet. Speaker.

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Morgan Stephens is a journalist, author, poet and speaker in Washington, D.C. She works as a White House reporter for Bloomberg covering the Biden administration. Before joining Bloomberg, she worked as a reporter, essayist and production assistant for CNN. Her reporting on Long COVID, homelessness, elections and political extremism has appeared in The Daily Beast, HuffPost, CNN Politics, The Des Moines Register and The Washington Post. 

After developing Long COVID in 2020, she wrote frankly about her experience in an Op-Ed for CNN. Since then, she's appeared on CNN+, KCAL, ABC Los Angeles, NPR, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, and a variety of podcasts. Stephens is a contributing author for The Long COVID Survival Guide.

Her debut poetry collection TILT was published via Aldrich Press in April 2024. Her poetry has been featured in Wild Roof Journal, The Long COVID Reader and Griffel. 

Stephens graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California with a double bachelor's degree in political science and journalism. She’s a proud member of the White House Correspondents Association, and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.