Mary Morris Cresswell (formerly Meyerhoff, née Howard; born 1937) is a poet and science writer living on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand.
Cresswell was born Mary Morris Howard in 1937 in Los Angeles, California.
It often explores lesser-known formats such as ghazals, glossas, centos as well as more well-known forms such as the sonnet.
She acknowledges the influence of the poets Kay Ryan, Paul Muldoon, and Thom Gunn on her work.
[12] Her 2011 collection Trace Fossils was runner-up for the Kathleen Grattan Award.