Description: " Terris is a poet of tensile, particular language and fearless investigation." - Jane Hirshfield
Brief description: Susan Terris' recent books include FAMILIAR TENSE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019), Take Two: Film Studies (Omnidawn Publishing), Memos (Omnidawn Publishing); and GHOST OF YESTERDAY (Marsh Hawk Press). She's published seven books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, three artist's books, and one play. A poem of hers appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos was in Best American Poetry 2015. Ms.Terris is editor emerita of Spillway Magazine and a poetry editor at Pedestal Magazine. She lives in San Francisco, except in the summer when she lives by a lake in northern Minnesota.