Terri Kirby Erickson

Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of seven full-length collections of poems, including her latest book, Night Talks: New & Selected Poems (Press 53), FINALIST for the 2024 International Book Award for (General) Poetry and A Sun Inside My Chest (Press 53), WINNER of the 2021 International Book Award for Poetry. Her work has received multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Award, Gold Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, Board of Regents Annals of Internal Medicine 2023 Poetry Prize, and many others. She was also selected to be in The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019, by Black Mountain Press and The Halcyone. Her poems have appeared in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Connotation Press, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, JAMA, Latin American Literary Review, Plainsongs, Poetry Foundation, Poet’s Market, Rattle, storySouth, The Christian Century, The Sun, The Writer’s Almanac, 3rd Wednesday, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and numerous other journals, anthologies, and publications.