Rusty Morrison Explained

Rusty Morrison
Birth Date:12 July 1956

Rusty Morrison (born July 12, 1956) is an American poet and publisher. She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco. She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009. She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, the University of Arizona, Boise State University, Marylhurst University, and Millikin University. In 2001, Morrison and her husband, Ken Keegan, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond, California, and continue to work as co-publishers. She contracted Hepatitis C in her twenties but, like most people diagnosed with this disease, did not experience symptoms for several years. Since then, a focus on issues relating to disability has developed as an area of interest in her writing.

Honors and awards

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Published works

Full-length poetry collections

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Chapbook collections

Periodicals and anthologies

Morrison's work has been included in an anthology for the literary study of disability, titled Beauty is a Verb. Morrison’s poems have also appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Boston Review,[9] Chicago Review, Colorado Review,[10] Gulf Coast, Lana Turner,[11] New American Writing,[12] Pleiades,[13] Verse, and VOLT. Her critical writings and creative nonfictions have been published in journals including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Flash,[14] Verse, and in the anthology One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande 2010).[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: > 2009 Contest Winners . Tupelo Press . January 12, 2012.
  2. http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/schools/school-of-liberal-arts/departments-programs/mfa-creative-writing/visiting-faculty.html Saint Mary’s College > MFA in Creative Writing > Visiting Faculty
  3. Web site: Poetry Society of America > Winners List . 2009-05-27 . 2020-03-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200313193423/https://poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetynine_poems.html . dead .
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20090714035303/http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.09.html Poetry Flash > Northern California Book Awards
  5. Web site: Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners . Poetrysociety.org . January 12, 2012.
  6. Web site: Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners . Poetrysociety.org . January 12, 2012.
  7. Web site: Colorado Prize for Poetry > Previous Winners . Coloradoreview.colostate.edu . January 12, 2012.
  8. Web site: Poetry Society of America > Awards > Past Winners . Poetrysociety.org . January 12, 2012.
  9. Web site: Boston Review November/December 2007 . Bostonreview.net . January 12, 2012.
  10. Web site: Standards > Contributor Bios . Colorado.edu . January 12, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111225025011/http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V7N1/contributors.html . December 25, 2011 . dead .
  11. Web site: SPDBooks.org . SPDBooks.org . January 12, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929134416/http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/24632/lana-turner-a-journal-of-poetry-and-opinion.aspx . September 29, 2011 . dead . mdy-all .
  12. Web site: New American Writing . Newamericanwriting.com . January 12, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120107230023/http://newamericanwriting.com/current.htm . January 7, 2012 .
  13. Web site: Pleiades > Volume 23, Number 2 . Ucmo.edu . January 12, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111225075601/http://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/back_issues/ . December 25, 2011 . dead .
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20030419000651/http://www.poetryflash.org/archive.287.Morrison.html Poetry Flash #287
  15. Web site: > One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe . Sarabande Books . January 12, 2012.

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