Terri Kirby Erickson

Books by Terri Kirby Erickson

Thread Count

by Terri Kirby Erickson

AuthorHouse, 2006.

Telling Tales of Dusk

by Terri Kirby Erickson

Press 53, 2009.

In the Palms of Angels

by Terri Kirby Erickson

Press 53, 2011.

A Lake of Light and Clouds

by Terri Kirby Erickson

Press 53, 2014.

About Me

I'm the author of four collections of poetry, Thread Count (2006), Telling Tales of Dusk (2009), In the Palms of Angels (2011), and A Lake of Light and Clouds (Press 53, 2014). Prizes include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, a Nautilus Book Award, the Poetry for Their Freedom Award, Gold Medal for Poetry in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and many others. My work has been published in the 2013 Poet's Market, The Writer's Almanac, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, The Christian Science Monitor, JAMA, Asheville Poetry Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and many others. I live in North Carolina...

Why do you write?

I write because I have no choice. Sometimes I wake up with a poem in my head and I can't eat or move forward in the day until I get whatever is in my mind, on paper, or onscreen, as it were... And it is a wonderful feeling when you actually connect with readers--when they tell you how much something you have written means to them.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Ted Kooser: Delights & Shadows; Kim Addonizio: What is This Thing Called Love?:Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte; Mere Christianity: C.S. Lewis; A Coney Island of the Mind: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I also enjoy Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries, and Robert Parker's detective novels. Also, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, John Irving, Sue Monk Kidd, and funny books like The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love, by Jill Conner Browne.