Terri Witek

Terri Witek is the author of Body Switch, Exit Island, The Shipwreck Dress (both Florida Book Award Medalists), Carnal World, Fools and Crows, Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest), and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self, as well as a recent comic book/ poetry chapzine, First Shot at Fort Sumter/Possum. Her poetry has appeared in Slate, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, and other journals, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat, and the state of Florida. A native of northern Ohio, she teaches English at Stetson University, where she holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing.

(Source: ELO 2017: Book of Abstracts and Catalogs)