Morgan Ring was born and raised in Toronto. She moved to England in 2008 to read History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, winning a Senior Scholarship and completing her dissertation under the supervision of Professor John Guy.  Morgan held the Gonville Studentship at Caius, where she wrote her doctorate on the cult of saints in Reformation Britain. 

Morgan’s biography of Lady Margaret Douglas, the niece of Henry VIII and half-sister of James V, was published by Bloomsbury in 2016.