MORRI CREECH

ERICA DAWSON

JEFFREY HARRISON

JOSEPH HARRISON

J.D. MCCLATCHY

ERIC MCHENRY

MARY JO SALTER

W.D. SNODGRASS

MARK STRAND

DEBORAH WARREN

CLIVE WATKINS

RICHARD WILBUR

GREG WILLIAMSON

Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and educated at Winthrop University (BA) and McNeese State University (MFA, MA). Recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, he has published two collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals (Kent UP 2001) and, most recently, Field Knowledge, which won the 2005 Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser 2006) and has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His work has appeared in such journals and magazines as The New Criterion, The New Republic, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, and The Hudson Review. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with his daughter Hattie, and teaches in the MFA Program at McNeese State University.