Terri Glass

Poet

Gasquet, CA
California US
Email: 
terri@thefoxpath.net
Website: 
www.terriglass.com

Author's 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

 

Education: 
Stonecoast MFA, University of Southern Maine MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Blue (Jambu Press, 2023)
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Fly Like the Clouds of Time (California Poets in the Schools, 2022)
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Wild Gods:The Ecstatic In Contemporary Poetry and Prose (New Rivers Press, 2020)
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I’ll Take This Word and Make it Mine (California Poets in the Schools, 2019)
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The Wild (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2019)
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50 Haikus (Prolific Press, 2018)
,
Fire and Rain: EcoPoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018)
,
San Diego Poetry Annual (Garden Oak Press, 2018)
,
Singing the Feathers of Freedom (California Poets in the Schools, 2017)
,
Earth Blessings (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016)
,
San Diego Poetry Annual (Garden Oak Press, 2016)
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San Diego Poetry Annual (Garden Oak Press, 2015)
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The Inspiration of Horses (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2015)
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Back to Joy (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2014)
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If the Sky Was My Heart (California Poets in the Schools, 2014)
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San Diego Poetry Annual (Garden Oak Press, 2014)
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Stonecoast Lines (University of Southern Maine, 2013)
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Trees (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2013)
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Mountains & InBetween (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2011)
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Shadow and Light (Monadnock Group Publications, 2011)
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What the World Hears (California Poets in the Schools, 2009)
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My Song is my Light (California Poets in the Schools, 2007)
,
Hope In the Form of Stripes (California Poets in the Schools, 2006)
,
Volume 13 (Drumvoices Revue, 2005)
,
My Pencil of Dreams (California Poets in the Schools, 2004)
,
Nest of Freedom (California Poets in the Schools, 2002)
,
Year 2000, an anthology (Nevada County Poetry Series, 2000)
,
To Honor a Teacher (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1999)
,
Beside the Sleeping Maiden (Aretos Press, 1997)
Books:
Being Animal (Kelsay Books, 2020)
,
Volume XXI (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2018)
Chapbook:
Birds, Bees, Trees, Love, Hee Hee (Finishing Line Press, 2015)
Journals:
About Place Journal
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Adventum Magazine
,
Avocet
,
California Quarterly
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Convolvulus
,
Eastern Iowa Review
,
Fourth River
,
Ginosko Literary Journal
,
Insight
,
Young Ravens Literary Review
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

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Brian Doyle, , Barry Lopez, William Stafford, Basho, Neruda, Rilke, Gibran, Yeats, Mary Oliver.
What I'm reading now: 
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
European American, White
Prefers to work with: 
Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teachers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Vancouver, WA
Washington
Raised in: 
Battle Ground, WA
Washington
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Last update: Oct 27, 2023