Terri Kirby Erickson is the award-winning author of six collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in “American Life in Poetry,” JAMA, The SUN, The Writer’s Almanac, and numerous other literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She lives in North Carolina.

Collections

Winner of the
2021 International Book Award for Poetry
“A Sun Inside My Chest”

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International Book Award Finalist
“Becoming the Blue Heron”

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USA Best Book Award Finalist
“A Lake of Light and Clouds”

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Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award,
Nautilus Silver Book Award,
International Book Award Finalist
“In the Palms of Angels”

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#23, Contemporary Best Sellers in Poetry List
“Telling Tales of Dusk”

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Thread Count
“Thread Count”

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All book cover paintings by artist Stephen White, whose work has appeared in MoMA and in galleries in North Carolina, including City Art Gallery in Greenville, NC. Stephen uses the Byzantine technique of applying pure gold leaf in sheets to his painted figures. Cover designs of A Sun Inside My Chest, Becoming the Blue Heron, A Lake of Light and Clouds, In the Palms of Angels and A Sun Inside My Chest are by Kevin Morgan Watson of Press 53, Publisher and Editor in Chief.