karla k. morton, the 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate, 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 been widely published in literary journals, including descant, AmarilloBay, the Concho River Review, the Southwestern American Literature, Wichita Falls Literary and Art Review, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, the Texas Poetry Calendar, Illya's Honey, Oak Bend Review, Austin International Poetry Anthology and the upcoming New Texas, Denton Writer's League Anthology and ARDENT.

She is the author of several upcoming books, including Becoming Superman, Names We've Never Known, and a collection of her works as part of the Poet Laureate series by the Texas Christian University Press (to be published in 2010).

morton is a board member of the Greater Denton Arts Council, Dos Gatos Press, and a founding member and
board member of the Denton Poet's Assembly, (a part of
the Poetry Society of Texas). Additionally, she is a
member of the esteemed Western Writers of America and holds a Journalism degree from Texas A&M University. A Texas native, morton lives in Denton, Texas with
her husband and two teenage children.

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