Wilda Morris
a Past President of both the Illinois State Poetry Society and Poets & Patrons of Chicago (for which she also served as workshop chair for many years). She has published hundreds of poems in anthologies, webzines, and print publications and won awards for formal and free verse and haiku. She has published three books of poetry: Szechwan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chinese Restaurant (RWG Press), Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby-Dick (Kelsay Books), and At Goat Hollow and Other Poems (Kelsay). Since 2006 she has been MC for a monthly poetry reading at Brewed Awakening in Westmont, IL.