karla morton

Karla K. Morton has fifteen poetry collections. A National Heritage Wrangler Award Winner, Foreword Book of the Year Award winner, twice a Next Generation Indie National Book Award winner, Betsy Colquitt award winner, E2C Grant recipient, and shortlisted for the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize, she’s published in journals such as American Life in Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, Southword, descant, Boulevard, Comstock Review, Lascaux Review, Grub Street, Right Hand Pointing, New Ohio Review, and many more. Her poetry book with fellow laureate Alan Birkelbach about the National Parks “The National Parks: A Century of Grace” (TCU Press) has just entered its second printing in less than one year of release. It is very historic, as there has never been a book of poetry written about all 62 National Parks in-situ to help culturally preserve and protect them for the next seven generations. 

Her most recent book, “Politics of the Minotaur” won the 2022 Firebird Book Award for Poetry, the poetry Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and is short-listed for the International Rubery Book Award. She was named Texas Poet Laureate in 2010.