Fathom by Melissa MorphewAbout the author:
A native of Tennessee, currently lives in Texas where she is associate professor of English and creative writing at Sam Houston State University.Her work has appeared widely in such journals as The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant in Poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission, winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, winner of the W.B. Yeats Society Award in Poetry, as well as, several other prizes and honors. She is a four-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. Her previous collections include Hunger and Heat: The Missionary Letters (Anabiosis Press, 1995) and The Garden Where All Loves End (La Jolla Poets Press, 1997).
