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Gwendolyn Morgan [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
P.O. Box 65308
Vancouver, WA 98665
Email: 
gwyndlynm@gmail.com
Bio: 

Gwendolyn Morgan is a Northwest poet and artist. She learned the names of birds and wildflowers and inherited paint brushes and wooden paint boxes from her grandmothers. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and an M.Div. from San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. She is grateful for a Centrum Winter 2020 Artist Residency.   She has been a recipient of artist and writing residencies at Artsmith, Caldera, Centrum, Into the Depths of Winter, and Soapstone. Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, her first book of poems, was a winner of the Wild Earth Poetry Prize, Hiraeth Press. Snowy Owls, Egrets and Unexpected Graces, is a Nautilus Gold Winner in Poetry and a Foreward Indies Book of the Year Finalist in the Nature Category. Before the Sun Rises, her third book of poetry, was released June 2019 from Homebound Publications and is a Nautilus Silver Winner in Poetry. She served as the Clark County Poet Laureate, Washington 2018-2020.   Gwendolyn and her spouse Judy A. Rose share their home, music and creekside walks with Naomi, a rescued Cardigan Corgi & Chesapeake Retriever mix. 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
* Leslie Marmon Silko * dg nanouk okpik * Josefina de la Torre * María Isabel Lara Millapán * Julia Alvarez * Ana Castillo * Jane Hirshfield * Barbara Kingsolver * Louise Erdrich * Ursula LeGuin * Madeleine L'Engle
Website: 
https://gwendolynmorganrose.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

Nautilus Silver, Poetry Book Award Winner (2019)

Forward Indies Book of the Year Finalist, Nature Writing (2017)

Nautilus Gold, Poetry Book Award Winner (2017)

Wild Earth Poetry Prize, Hiraeth Press (2013)

Education: 
Goddard College in Vermont
What I'm reading now: 
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by ed. by Joy Harjo, Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster and contributing editors
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Corenjo Villavicencio
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald
The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Writers Retreats: 
Artsmith Artist Residency
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
Centrum Port Townsend Writers’ Conference
Portland Book Festival

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[2] https://gwendolynmorganrose.com/