Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of six collections of poetry, including A Sun Inside My Chest (Press 53, 2020). Her work has appeared in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, JAMA, Latin American Literary Review, Poetry Foundation, Poet's Market, San Pedro River Review, storySouth, The Christian Century, The Sun, The Writer's Almanac, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and countless others. Her awards include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, Nazim Hikmet Award, Nautilus Silver Book Award, and many others. She was selected by The Black Mountain Press and The Halcyon for The Sixty-Four best poets of 2019, from a pool of "thousands." Terri Kirby Erickson lives in North Carolina.