Music has always been at the heart of my life. The piano was my first love, leading me to earn a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a master’s degree in piano accompanying. In addition to teaching piano and accompanying, I spent fifteen years as an elementary school teacher in the public sector.
My writing journey began with blogging, where I shared short reflections on life. Then I joined an online poetry circle, where my passion for personal expression through poetry grew.
I live in Oklahoma with my husband, where we raised our three children. Our family has since grown to include a daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and a granddaughter. Sunday dinners around the table are my favorite!
Music has always been at the heart of my life. The piano was my first love, leading me to earn a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a master’s degree in piano accompanying. In addition to teaching piano and accompanying, I spent fifteen years as an elementary school teacher in the public sector.
My writing journey began with blogging, where I shared short reflections on life. Then I joined an online poetry circle, where my passion for...
“Kelley Morris deciphers cloud shapes as an attempt to understand the world and her place in it. It’s a comfort read that will bring a sense of calm into your life at a time when we need it the most. Her dialogue with the sky is not done in a naïve manner, but with eyes wide open. Reading her work is breathtaking.”…Bill McCloud, author of The Error...
Kelley Morris writes poetry the way some people breathe. She composes in a natural language, one where the reader comes to inhabit her gentle world of living. This is the kind of poetry capable of raising you up, bestowing hopefulness, and adding beauty to a plain day. Employing artful yet unpretentious language which is expansive but still...
When life’s circumstances throw difficult times our way, a firm foundation in personal faith will help us stand tall and endure. There is no avoiding these dark moments or seasons of hardship and even so knowing, we may still waver in those spiritual convictions. Meditating on scripture and scriptural truths found in hymns and songs has the...
My manuscript, The Adventures of Little Cloud: What Shape Will I Be?, was the winner of the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., unpublished picture book category! ...
Join me Saturday, April 11, from 10:30-12:00, at Meadow Market Books in Tulsa. I will be reading selections from my new poetry collection, The Space Between Clouds.
My latest poetry collection, The Space Between Clouds, is now available! I hope you'll join me in gazing at the clouds, exploring with childlike amazement.
