Terry Ehret (born 1955 in San Francisco) is an American poet. She has published several collections of poetry including Suspensions, Lost Body, and Translations from the Human Language.

Terry Ehret
Born1955 (age 68–69)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
San Francisco State University (MA)

Life

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She graduated from Stanford University in 1977, and from San Francisco State University in 1984, with an MA.[1] She is the co-founder of Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared-work publishing collective for San Francisco Bay Area poets.[2]

She served as poet laureate of Sonoma County, from 2004 to 2006,[3] where she lives with her husband.[4]

Awards

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  • 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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  • Lucky Break. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9767642-6-7.
  • Translations from the Human Language. Sixteen Rivers Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-9707370-1-4.
  • How We Go on Living (Protean Press, 1995)
  • Lost Body. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-057-3.

Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ "Biographical Information | Personal Website for Terry Ehret". Terryehret.wordpress.com. 8 August 2009. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  2. ^ "About Sixteen Rivers Press". Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  3. ^ Joy Lanzendorfer (October 10, 2003). "Sonoma County's poet laureate is one of the prose". San Francisco Chronicle.
  4. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4169 [dead link]
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