Kona is a writer and the co-founder and editor of
Fast Forward Press,
a publication devoted to condensed forms of literature. She
received the Redwood Empire Mensa Award for Creative Non-Fiction in
2006, and she was selected to be a Featured Artist for
Connotation Press in 2011. She has
published
many short stories and prose poems, and she is working on a novel, as well as a book on the craft of writing with Bobbie
Louise Hawkins. Kona was co-founder of the Write Trash writing
group in Fairbanks,
Alaska, as well as the forthcoming anthology series,
Anthology of the Awkward. Her work has most recently been published in
Linh Dinh's The Lower Half, Connotation Press, Flâneur Foundry, Not Enough Night, The Bathroom,
Fast Forward,
Monkey Puzzle,
Bombay Gin, and
Zero Ducats.
She is originally from the small town art hub of Eureka,
California, amid enormous Redwood trees and vacant beaches near
the Oregon border. She has lived in Boston, Massachusetts,
Fairbanks
and Fort Yukon, Alaska, and is now part of the writing scene in Denver,
Colorado. She received her MFA in Creative Writing
through Naropa University, and she is currently a writing professor in Denver. Kona also runs her own manuscript
editing and
critique business (please see the
Editing page on this website).
Email:
kona.morris@gmail.com