Oak Morse lives in Houston, Texas, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi.
He won the 2025 Larry Levis Post-Graduate Award and the 2024 A Public Space Writing Fellowship. Oak has received support from PEN America and has won fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, Twelve Literary Arts, Cave Canem's Starshine, and Clay, as well as a Stars in the Classroom honor from the Houston Texans. His work appears in POETRY, Public Space, Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Painted Bride Quarterly, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, and Electric Literature, among others.