Terri McCord

Terri McCord is a visual artist as well as a poet. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded her the literary fellowship in poetry (out of state panel for jurors) for 2001-2002. She received a 2020 Pushcart nomination, and Finishing Line Press published her third volume of poetry - The Beauts! Other awards include finalist standing in the Press 53 Open Awards, as well as finalist in Pocataligo Poetry Prize from Yemassee Review, Southeast Review, and South Carolina Review. She has read for the State Book Festival, Sundown Poetry Series at the Spoleto Festival, Richland County Library Fall Lines, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, Furman University, Converse, Emrys and bookstores and journals. She has received nominations for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes.

McCord has also judged writing for the Raleigh Fine Arts Society, other groups and has taught and created arts and cross-curricular residencies through the South Carolina Arts Commission and various other venues. She has also taught at Clemson University and Anderson University. She earned an M.F.A. from Queens University in Charlotte in 2006.

She had the pleasure of writing an ekphrastic poem in response to a photograph in a collaborative project with the Film Shooters Collective: revela't, an international exhibition in 2021.