Wilda Morris

Wilda Morris is a Chicago-area poet who has published three poetry collections and two nonfiction books. Her poems have appeared in journals including the Rockford Review, The Ocotillo Review, and Modern Haiku. She chairs the Workshop of Poets and Patrons of Chicago and is a past president of the Illinois State Poetry Society. She won the 2019 Founders' Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Morris has run a monthly poetry prompt on her blog since 2009. Her poem "Consolation" first appeared in the Rockford Review in 2009.