Theresa Senato Edwards

Pawling, NY 12564
Phone: 
8452425701

Author's Bio

Theresa Senato Edwards has published two full-length poetry books, one, with painter Lori Schreiner, which won The Tacenda Literary Award for Best Book, and two chapbooks. Her first chapbook, The Music of Hands, was recently published in a revised second print edition by Seven CirclePress. Poems from her newest manuscript titled “Wing Bones” can be found in Stirring, Gargoyle, The Nervous Breakdown, Thrush, Diode, Rogue Agent, Mom Egg Review, Menacing Hedge, and forthcoming in MOIRA. Edwards was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, received creative writing residencies from Drop Forge & Tool (2015 and 2018) and Craigardan (2019), and is Editor in Chief of The American Poetry Journal (APJ).

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won: 
Prizes: “Her Rituals” from my debut poetry book, Voices Through Skin, was a poetry finalist for the OCD Foundation’s Dare to Believe Contest, 2011. "Painting Czeslawa Kwoka" won the Tacenda Literary Award for Best Collaboration 2007. “A Last Look” won this same award in 2010; and the book, Painting Czeslawa Kwoka ~ Honoring Children of the Holocaust, won the Tacenda Literary Award for Best Book, 2011—all from BleakHouse Publishing. My poem, "Painting Czeslawa Kwoka," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and I received a writing residency from Drop Forge & Tool in 2015.

More Information

Listed as: 
Poet
Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Manhattan
Raised in: 
NY
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Last updated: Apr 19, 2019