Terry Ehret (born 1955 in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. She has published several collections of poetry including Suspensions, Lost Body, and Translations from the Human Language.

Life

She graduated from

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in 1977, and from

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in 1984, with an MA. She is the co-founder of

Sixteen Rivers Press Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective that provides an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. History Founded in 1999 by poets Valerie Berry, Terry Ehret, Margaret Kaufman, Jacqueline Kudler, ...

, a shared-work publishing collective for

Bay Area poets. She served as poet laureate of

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, from 2004–2006, where she lives with her husband.http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4169

Awards

* 1993 National Poetry Series * 1994 California Book Award, silver medal for poetry * 1995 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize * 2008 Northern California Book Reviewers nomination for poetry

Work

* * * ''How We Go on Living'' (Protean Press, 1995) *

Anthologies

* ''Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology'' (University of New England Press, 1996) * *

References

External links

"Author's website""Smoking With Terry Ehret", ''Smoke Long Quarterly''"SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER—TERRY EHRET"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ehret, Terry 1955 births Living people Writers from San Francisco Stanford University alumni San Francisco State University alumni American women poets 21st-century American women