Having taught in the LA public schools for thirty years, Morgan now writes about the people and places he has come to know in the course of his career. During the pandemic, he began writing Gone To Ground. At the same time, Los Angeles was going through a

series of scandals involving public officials as well as an uptick in the perennial "crises" of homelessness, immigration, and gentrification. Add to this the on-again-off-again California bullet train, and you have the main threads of this novel. Morgan lives in Los Angeles with his wife where he's trying to learn his mother-in- law's recipe for dhaar dhokli.