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Terry Ehret [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Petaluma, CA
California US
Email: 
tehret99@comcast.net
Bio: 

TERRY EHRET has published several collections of poetry including Suspensions, Lost Body, and Translations from the Human Language. Literary awards include the National Poetry Series, California Book Award, Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart nominations. Lucky Break, her most recent publication, has been nominated for the Independent Book Sellers Award and the Northern California Book Reviewers Award as one of the best poetry collections of 2008. She is the co-founder of Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared-work publishing collective for San Francisco Bay Area poets. From 2004-2006 she served as poet laureate of Sonoma County where she teaches writing and lives with her husband.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
San Francisco
Raised in: 
Belmont, CA
California
Website: 
https://www.terryehret.com [2]
Prizes won: 

National Poetry Series (1993)
California Book Award, silver medal for poetry (1994)
Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize (1995); Finalist 1998 and 2007.
Northern California Independent Book Sellers nomination for poetry (2008)
Northern California Book Reviewers nomination for poetry (2008)

What I'm reading now: 
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
Collected Poems by Octavio Paz
Nonrequired Reading by Wislawa Szymborska
The Feminine in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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