Mary Morris is the author of four books of poetry, most recently "Lanterns in the Night Market" (2025 Texas Review Press). Her other books include "Enter Water, Swimmer" (selected by X.J. Kennedy), "Dear October" (winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award), and "Late Self-Portraits" (winner of the Wheelbarrow Book Prize).  Her work has been published in Boulevard, North American Review, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and numerous other literary journals. She received the Rita Dove Award, Western Humanities Review Prize in Poetry, and the New Mexico Discovery Award. Mary Morris has been invited to read her poems at the Library of Congress, which was consequently aired on NPR. Mary lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contact info: www.water400.org [2]   mary@water400.org [3]