Terri Kirby EricksonTerri Kirby Erickson is the author of five previous collections of poetry. Her work has received multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Award, Gold Medal in the NextGeneration Indie Book Awards, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and many others. She was also selected to be in The Sixty-Four: 2019, featuring the best poets of 2019, by Black Mountain Press and The Halcyone. Her poems have appeared in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Connotation Press, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection, JAMA, Latin American Literary Review, O.Henry Magazine, Plainsongs, Poetry Foundation, Poet's Market, storySouth, The Christian Century, The Sun, The Writer's Almanac, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and numerous other journals, anthologies, and publications. She lives with her husband in North Carolina. Read More Read Less