Kadish Morris (b.1990, Leeds) is an editor, writer, poet and arts critic at The Observer, where she previously worked as a commissioning editor. Her writing and criticism has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Frieze, Art Review, The Financial Times, Vice, Royal Academy magazine, The Bookseller, Dazed, AnOther, and TWIN. In 2020, she was awarded the Eric Gregory prize awarded to poets under 30.
She previously worked at Frieze as a staff writer, writing and commissioning digital content and has also worked for Tate Etc. She founded the interview series g-irl.com, which ran from 2015-2018 (R.I.P). She has interviewed leading figures in art and culture including Kehinde Wiley, John Boyega, FKA Twigs, Hew Locke, Marina Abramović, Mykki Blanco and George The Poet. From 2021-2023, she was a judge for the Sky Arts Award. She is currently on the board of Peepal Tree Press, a Caribbean and Black British Fiction, Poetry and Non-fiction.