
karla k. morton, the 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is a celebrated poet, author and storyteller. She has been described as "one of the more adventurous voices in American poetry" with good reason.
Her poetry, which spans many subjects and forms, has also been published in a variety of literary journals, including: descant (winner of Betsy Colquitt Award), AmarilloBay, the Concho River Review, the Southwestern American Literature, Right Hand Pointing, Oak Bend Review, Borderlands, Wichita Falls Literary and Art Review, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the Texas Poetry Calendar, Illya's Honey, Austin International Poetry Anthology, New Texas, Denton Writer's League Anthology, REAL, Right Hand Pointing and ARDENT.