Morgan Campbell

Morgan Campbell (born 1976) is a Canadian sports journalist and memorist.^[1] 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 English Prose in 2025.^[2]

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.^[1] 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.^[3]

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.