Karla K. Morton has sixteen poetry collections. A National Heritage Wrangler Award Winner, twice an Indies National Book Award winner, Foreword Book Award winner, SPUR Award Winner, Betsy Colquitt Award Winner and E2C Grant recipient, she is guest editor for TCU Press’ Selected Works of Walt McDonald. She is published in journals such as The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, American Life in Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southword Literary Journal, Boulevard, Lascaux Review, Comstock Review, New Ohio Review, the New Mexico Poetry Anthology, and is short-listed for Ireland’s O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition and the UK’s Bridport Prize. Her book with fellow Texas State Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach, “The National Parks: A Century of Grace” (TCU Press) is historic, as it is the first book of poetry ever written in-situ by poets who traveled to all 63 of 63 National Parks. They give a percentage of royalties from this book back to the National Parks. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and Western Writers of America. She is a board member of the Shuler Restoration Committee (for the historic 1914 Shuler Theater in Raton, NM), the 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate, a songwriter and a Nominee for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
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