Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of six full-length collections of poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, anthologies and other publications, including: Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” Annals of Internal Medicine, A Prairie Journal, Artemis Journal, Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Basilica Review, Bay Leaves, Birmingham Arts Journal, Blue Fifth Review, Bop Dead City, Boston Literary Magazine, Broad River Review, Christian Science Monitor, Connotation Press, Cowboy Poetry, Cutthroat, Dead Mule, Eclectica, Dappled Things, Deep South Magazine, Delta Poetry Review, Dime Show Review, Eunoia Review, Flutter, Forsyth Woman, Foundling Review, Fourth & Sycamore, Garo, Green Briar Review, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Iodine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Kakalak, Latin American Literary Review, Literary Mama, Long Story Short, MockingHeart Review, Muse India, NASA News & Notes, Nibble, North Carolina Literary Review, Oak Bend Review, The Ofi Press, O.Henry Magazine, One Art, PainPathways, Parent:Wise Austin, Paris Voice, Pinesong, Pirene’s Fountain, Pisgah Review, Plainsongs, Poetica Magazine, Poet’s Market, Poets Reading the News, Poetry Foundation, Prairie Wolf Press, Prime Number Magazine, Raptor Resource Project, Red Eft Review, Redheaded Stepchild, Red River Review, Relief: A Christian Literary Expression, Salt, Sandy River Review, San Pedro River Review, Scythe, Seeding the Snow, Shot Glass Journal, Sleet Magazine, Smoking Poet, Stone Gathering, storySouth, The Avalon Literary Review, The Christian Century, The Gatherings Project, The Mantle, The New Verse News, The Rusty Nail, The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019, The Sun, The Sunlight Press, The Writer’s Almanac, Thieves Jargon, 3rd Wednesday, Time of Singing: A Magazine of Christian Poetry, Toasted Cheese, To the Bone, Train River Covid-19 Anthology,Tryst, Turtle Island Quarterly, 27 rue de fleures, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Verse-Virtual, Whole Terrain, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Word Salad, Your Daily Poem, and others, as well as in a variety of anthologies including Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (edited by James Crews), and others published by Old Mountain Press, Silver Boomer Books, the Hickory Women’s Resource Center, the Cape Fear River Foundation, Main Street Rag (Kakalak), and Texas Review Press (The Southern Poetry Anthology) .

Her articles and essays have appeared in national and international publications, including Maria Shriver’s Architects for Change, O.Henry Magazine, PainPathways, Land Rover Monthly, BoomerCafe, Broad Street Review, Winston-Salem Journal, and more.

She has taught poetry workshops in libraries, high schools, universities, churches, medical centers, and other venues, and was an instructor in the continuing education program at Salem College.  She was also chosen as the 2013 Leidig Keynote Poet at Emory & Henry College.

You may contact her at tkerickson@triad.rr.com for further information about speaking engagements!