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Terry Lucas [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Las Cruces, NM
New Mexico US
Email: 
lucas.t274@gmail.com
Bio: 

Terry Lucas is a prize-winning poet, essayist, editor and writing consultant. His work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous national literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Columbia Poetry Review, Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Rosebud, and The Sun Magazine. His work has received seven Pushcart Prize nominations, and he was the winner of the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award in Poetry. His two full-length collections are Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press, 2016) and In This Room (CW Books, 2016). His most recent chapbook, If They Have Ears to Hear, won the 2012 Copperdome Award from Southeast Missouri State University Press. Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County, California, Terry has been a regular speaker, panelist, and reader in the Dominican University of California's MFA Program and is now a free-lance poetry coach. For more about him and his work see www.terrylucas.com [2].

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Cleveland, OH
Ohio
Raised in: 
Farmington, NM
New Mexico
Website: 
https://www.terrylucas.com [3]
Prizes won: 

Poet Laureate of Marin County California, 2019-2020; 2014 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award in Poetry;  2012 Copperdome Chapbook Award from Southeast Missouri State University Press; Littoral Press Poetry Prize, 2012 and 2019.

Education: 
New England College
Writers Retreats: 
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference
Tin House Summer Workshop
Identifies as: 
European American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/terry_lucas [2] http://www.terrylucas.com [3] https://www.terrylucas.com