Teresa Carson's work centers on the themes of time, memory, and the stories we humans tell.
She holds an MFA in Poetry and an MFA in Theatre, both from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of five collections of poetry: Elegy for a Floater (CavanKerry Press, 2008); My Crooked House (CavanKerry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Congress of Human Oddities (Deerbrook Editions, 2015); VISIT TO AN EXTINCT CITY (Deerbrook Editions, 2021); and METAMORPHOSES, BOOK XVI (Deerbrook Editions, 2022).
She lives in Florida, where so co-curates two programs aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations and putting art into public settings: The Unbroken Thread[s] Project and Art in Common Places.