Terry Ehret

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Terry Ehret
Born1955 (age 6869)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education Stanford University
San Francisco State University (MA)

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.

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Life

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

Work

Anthologies

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sixteen Rivers Press</span>

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References

  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 ]