Terry Blackhawk is the author of many poetry collections, including ONE LESS RIVER (Mayapple Press, 2019), THE WHISK AND WHIR OF WINGS (The Ridgeway Press, 2016), ESCAPE ARTIST (BkMk Press at the University of Missourri-Kansas City, 2003), winner of the John Ciardi Prize. Her awards include a Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Michigan Council for the Arts. She has poems in many journals and anthologies and on line at Rattle, The Collagist, Solstice, Verse Daily and elsewhere.