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 has been a recipient of artist and writing residencies including Artsmith, Caldera, Centrum, 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, is a Nautilus Silver Winner in Poetry. Flight Feathers, her fourth book of poetry, was published through Wayfarer Books, is a Nautilus God Winner in Lyric Prose and hybrid works.  All of her books are available via Wayfarer Books.  She served as the Clark County Poet Laureate, Washington 2018-2020.   Gwendolyn and her spouse Judy A. Rose share their home, music and woodland walks with the spirit of Naomi, a rescued Cardigan Corgi & Chesapeake Retriever mix.