Vicky Morris

Ann Fisher-Wirth is Mississippi Poet Laureate for 2025-2029. Her ninth book, For What Is, Praise: New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming in the Silver Concho Poetry Series from Press 53. With Laura-Gray Street, Ann coedited Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2025), a 2026 Silver Medalist in the IBPA for Poetry. A senior fellow of Black Earth Institute, Ann received the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. She has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, and elsewhere. She is retired from the University of Mississippi.