Morri Creech (born 1970)^[1] is an American poet. He earned a BA at Winthrop University and an MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His collection The Sleep of Reason was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and his collection Field Knowledge (2006) won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation,^[2] and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.^[3] He is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[4]