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
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. She has published several collections of poetry including Suspensions, Lost Body, and Translations from the Human Language.
Life
She graduated from
Stanford University in 1977, and from
San Francisco State University
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in 1984, with an MA. She is the co-founder of
Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared-work publishing collective for
San Francisco
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Bay Area poets.
She served as poet laureate of
Sonoma County
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, from 2004–2006, where she lives with her husband.
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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
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* ''How We Go on Living'' (Protean Press, 1995)
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Anthologies
* ''Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology'' (University of New England Press, 1996)
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References
External links
"Author's website""Smoking With Terry Ehret", ''Smoke Long Quarterly''"SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER—TERRY EHRET"
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1955 births
Living people
Writers from San Francisco
Stanford University alumni
San Francisco State University alumni
American women poets
21st-century American women