Morris Wayne Creech, Associate Professor of English
B.A., Winthrop University; M.A., M.F.A., McNeese State University

SELECTED WORKS
• Field Knowledge (poems). Baltimore: Waywiser Press, 2006
• Paper Cathedrals (poems). Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001

Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina in 1970, and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The Southwest Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Critical Quarterly, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has published one previous poetry collection, Paper Cathedrals (Kent State University Press, 2001), and, in collaboration with the photographer Robert ParkeHarrison, two museum-quality limited editions (21st). He has received the Stan and Tom Wick Award from Kent State University Press, a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Magazine and the Modern Poetry Foundation, an artist's fellowship from The Louisiana Division of the Arts, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was recently awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.