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Laurie D. Morrissey (born Laurie Dougal, February 14, 1955, Kent, Connecticut, U.S.A.), poet and nonfiction writer. Her work has appeared regularly since 2016 in leading print and online publications and featured in Haiku Society of America members’ anthologies as well as Red Moon Press anthologies, including A New Resonance 14 (2025). She was the featured poet during March 2023 on the Cornell University Mann Library’s Daily Haiku feature. Her work has been shortlisted for Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems and won recognition from other poetry publications and award programs. Morrissey has served as a book reviewer for Frogpond and Modern Haiku and a judge for the HSA Merit Book Awards. Her haiku collections published with Red Moon Press are The Slant of April Snow and All the Stars I Can Swallow (2022; shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award). A third collection is scheduled for publication in 2025. Morrissey resides in Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
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