Terri Kirby Erickson

Terri Kirby Erickson was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of six full-length collections of award-winning poetry, including Thread Count (2006), Telling Tales of Dusk (2009), In the Palms of Angels (2011), A Lake of Light and Clouds (2014), Becoming the Blue Heron (2017), and A Sun Inside My Chest (2020). 

Erickson's work has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Journal of the American Medical Association, Latin American Literary Review, Poet's Market, storySouth, The Christian Century, San Pedro River Review, The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019, The Sun, The Writer's Almanac, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and numerous other publications.

Awards and honors include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nazim Hikmet Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, Poetry for Their Freedom Award, International Book Award for Poetry, and many others. She lives with her husband in North Carolina.