Morri Creech

Morri Creech (born 1970)[1] is an American poet. His collection The Sleep of Reason was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and his collection Field Knowledge (2006) won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation,[2] and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[3] He is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina.[4]