Shedding Season in Southern Review of Books
Southern Review of Books published “Shedding Season Casts a Spell,” a feature review of Morton’s debut full-length collection.
press + events
reviews, readings, honors
Shedding Season in Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness reviewed the collection, calling it “a confident debut from a poet unafraid to use language like a sharpened blade.”
Snake Lore in Philly Chapbook Review
Philly Chapbook Review published C.M. Crockford’s review essay on Snake Lore and the Southern literary tradition.
Shedding Season in Garden & Gun
Garden & Gun included Shedding Season in its Great Big Summer Reading List.
events
selected appearances
- Punch Bucket Literary Festival, Debut Poetry Collections Reading with Ellen Boyette, moderated by Diamond Forde, 2025
- Black Lawrence Press launch reading for Shedding Season, 2025
- Black Lawrence Press Reading, AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2024
- Frontier Poetry, video reading, 2025
- Sundress Academy for the Arts, July Summer Holler Salon, Knoxville, TN, 2022
- Pure Products Reading Series at the 50th Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Northport, AL, 2021
honors
selected honors
- 2025 Alabama State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship
- Winner, Fall 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition for Snake Lore
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference