Morri Creech
Morri Creech is the author of the poetry collections Paper Cathedrals (Kent State UP, 2001), FIELD KNOWLEDGE (Waywiser, 2006), which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet's Prize, THE SLEEP OF REASON (Waywiser, March 2013), which was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, and BLUE ROOMS (The Waywiser Press, 2018). A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts...See more
Morri Creech is the author of the poetry collections Paper Cathedrals (Kent State UP, 2001), FIELD KNOWLEDGE (Waywiser, 2006), which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet's Prize, THE SLEEP OF REASON (Waywiser, March 2013), which was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, and BLUE ROOMS (The Waywiser Press, 2018). A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts Councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where he teaches courses in both the undergraduate creative writing program and in the low residency MFA program. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the novelist Sarah Creech and their two children. See less
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