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Terri Glass [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Gasquet, CA
California US
Email: 
terri@thefoxpath.net
Bio: 

Terri Glass is a writer of the natural world which includes poetry, essay and haiku.  Her most recent poetry collection is Being Animal by Kelsay Books. She is the author of a chapbook of haiku Birds, Bees, Trees, Love, Hee Hee from Finishing Line Press and some of her work has appeared in About Place, Young Raven’s Literary Review, The Fourth River, California Quarterly and many anthologies including Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Earth Blessings. She is the former director of California Poets in the Schools and still teaches in the program in Del Norte and Marin County. She has her MFA in creative writing from USM. See www.terriglass.com [2]

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Brian Doyle, , Barry Lopez, William Stafford, Basho, Neruda, Rilke, Gibran, Yeats, Mary Oliver.
Born in: 
Vancouver, WA
Washington
Raised in: 
Battle Ground, WA
Washington
Website: 
https://www.terriglass.com [3]
Prizes won: 

2023 Grantee of Upstate California Creative Corp/California Arts Council to write poems of endangered species of her region.

2020, River Ecology Splash Awards, 2nd place for haiku

2021 Soul Making Literary Competition, Honorable Mention for Autumn haiku

2003 Call to Arts! Juried Song Contest Winner in the category of Vision and Imagination for the spoken word piece The New Body, Creative Line magazine 

2004 Marin Arts Council Community Grant

1999  Artist Embassy International Dance Poetry Contest Award

Education: 
Stonecoast MFA, University of Southern Maine
What I'm reading now: 
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Identifies as: 
European American
White
Prefers to work with: 
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Teachers

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/terri_glass [2] http://www.terriglass.com [3] https://www.terriglass.com