Katie McMorris

Address: 4th Floor Morrill Hall (410-50)
E-mail: katie.mcmorris@okstate.edu
Website: katiemcmorris.com

MFA, English – Creative Writing, Purdue University

BA, English, Hope College

“Oscines.” Passages North, Issue 44, February 2023, Print.
“Remnants.” Gulf Coast, Issue 35.2 (Online Exclusive), February 2023, Web.
“The Reincarnation Museum.” Spoon River Poetry Review, issue 47.2, December 2022, Print.
“In the Forest of Discarded Grocery Store Ponies” & “I Want to Fall in Love (in a Fabric Store).” the minnesota review, Issue 99, November 2022. Print.
“Big Bird Rides the Challenger” & “When a Stranger Says My Arm Hair is Dark Enough.” The Pinch, Issue 42.2, October 2022, Print.
“Poem in Which Our Bodies are Not Temples.” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 20, July 2022. Web.
“Whenever I Mention Dropping Everything and Becoming a Farmer on a Remote Island.” The Arkansas International, Issue 12, May 2022, Print and Web.
“After Another Visit with the Pain Specialist.” The Rupture, Issue 117, February 2022, Web.
“Firth Date with the Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaur.” Booth, Issue 16, January 2022, Print.
“Allowing Your House Ghosts to Steal Your Loafers” & “cannibal ant from special object 3003.” The Shore, Issue 11, September 2020, Web.
“How to Love Someone at the Bottom of the Ocean.” org, September 2021, Web.
“Diptych: A Mr. Seven Hands Screwdriver and an Octopus Open up about Their Relationship.” Longleaf Review, September 2021, Web.
“Any of Various Bases or Parts.” Quarterly West, Issue 94, June 2018, Web.

Poetry Reader, Longleaf Review, Spring 2023 – present
Multimodal Satellite Supervisor, Oklahoma State University Writing Center, Fall 2022 – present
Writing Consultant, Oklahoma State University Writing Center, Spring 2022 – present
President, Oklahoma State University Creative Writers Association, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Editorial Assistant, Cimmaron Review, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
Poetry Reader, Sycamore Review, Spring 2021
Visiting Writers Series Coordinator, Purdue University Creative Writing Program, Fall 2019 – Spring 2021
Content Developer, Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab), Fall 2018 – Spring 2020

Marye Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing – Poetry, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2023
Marye Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing – Creative Nonfiction, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2023
Third place, Marye Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing – Fiction, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2023
Second place, Academy of American Poets Universities and Colleges Prize, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2023
Best of the Net Prize Finalist (nominated by The Arkansas International), Spring 2023
Pushcart Prize Nominee, The Pinch, Fall 2022
Pushcart Prize Nominee, Longleaf Review, Fall 2021
Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize (Academy of American Poets Universities and Colleges Prize), Purdue University, Spring 2021
Second place, Kneale Award for Literary Criticism, Purdue University, Spring 2021
Department of Anthropology Award, Purdue University, Spring 2021
Honorable Mention, AWP Intro Journals Award, Spring 2021
Quintilian Award, Purdue University, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020
Visual and Performing Art Award, Purdue University, Spring 2020
Promise Grant, Purdue University, Spring 2020
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue University, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
Jennifer Young Award in Creative Writing and Literature, Hope College, Spring 2017
William B. Eerdmans Prize in Prose, Hope College, Spring 2016
Erika Brubaker Award for Promising Achievements in the Study of Literature, Hope College, Spring 2016