Rusty Morrison

Rusty Morrison (born July 12, 1956) is an American poet and publisher.

She received a BA in English from Mills College in Oakland, California, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California, and an MA in Education from California State University, San Francisco.

In 2001, Morrison and her husband, Ken Keegan, founded Omnidawn Publishing in Richmond, California, and continue to work as co-publishers.

She contracted Hepatitis C in her twenties but, like most people diagnosed with this disease, did not experience symptoms for several years.

Since then, a focus on issues relating to disability has developed as an area of interest in her writing.

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Morrison's work has been included in an anthology for the literary study of disability, titled Beauty is a Verb.

Morrison’s poems have also appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and VOLT.

She has taught in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was Poet in Residence at Saint Mary’s College in 2009.

She has also served as a visiting poet at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, the University of Arizona, Boise State University, Marylhurst University, and Millikin University.

Her critical writings and creative nonfictions have been published in journals including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Flash, Verse, and in the anthology One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande 2010).