Publications & Awards

Books: Hold Still (Main Street Rag, 2014), Flame (Finishing Line Press, 2012), Beauty Lessons (Quercus Review Press, 2010), Behind Every Door (Slipstream Press, 2006)

Anthologies: Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020); The Art of Survival  (Kings Estate Press, 2014); Tigertail’s 10th anniversary anthology Sun-Struck Matches (2013);The Cancer Poetry Project 2 (2013); At the Gate: Departures and Arrivals (Kings Estate Press, 2011), Contrarywise: An Anthology (Kings Estate Press, 2008), Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2006), Unexpected Harvest: A Gathering of Blessings (Kings Estate Press, 2005)

Magazines: Apalachee Review, The Cafe Review, CALYX, Connecticut Review, Crab Creek Review, Dogwood, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Fox Cry Review, Free Lunch, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Harpur Palate, The Lyric, Mezzo Cammin, Miller’s Pond, Minnetonka Review, Naugatuck River Review, Nerve Cowboy, Off the Coast, Passager, Passages North, Pearl, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Primavera, Quercus Review, Rattle, Rosebud, Skylark, Slipstream, Slow Trains, Spillway, Taproot Literary Review, Yemassee

Awards: Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award finalist, 2013; William Stafford Award for Poetry finalist in 2012 and 2008; Dogwood Poetry Award finalist in 2012 and 2009;  2009 Quercus Review Poetry Book Award; 2010 and 2009 Paumanok Poetry Award finalist; 2009 Editors’ Choice Writecorner Press Poetry Prize; 2008 Rita Dove Poetry Award; 2006 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Competition

Articles online: A Frightful Case of New Year’s Nerves at The Gloria Sirens blog; Grown Ass Woman Brigade and Florida’s official state perfume, Orlando magazine; and “Crash, Crash, Crash, It’s a Gas” and “As the World Turns Away from Soaps” at “Celebrities in Disgrace.”

Interview online: The ORLANDOAN blog, March 2014.

Read some of Terry’s poems online.