Morgan Campbell

Morgan Campbell is a Canadian sports journalist and memorist. He is most noted for his 2024 book My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Trillium [Book Award, English|English Prose] in 2025.
The grandson of jazz pianist Claude Jones, he grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and had ambitions of playing football in the National Football League before studying journalism at Northwestern University. He became a sportswriter for the Toronto Star, until leaving the paper in December 2019 amid an employee buyout sparked by staffing reductions, and subsequently joined CBC Sports as a sports reporter and correspondent.
Campbell is a past winner in the Sports Writing Category at the National [Newspaper Awards] and a finalist for several major book awards including Balcones Prize, and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.