ABOUT ME
MY STORYTerri Linn Davis writes about beautiful, ugly things.
The Penn Review, Rejection Letters, Cultural Daily, The Daily Drunk Mag, Bending Genres, Five South, and elsewhere.
She is an alumna of the 2022 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for poetry and a 2023 Artist Fellowship recipient from Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Terri works from home as a Technical Writer in an 190 year old haunted farmhouse in Connecticut. She is also licensed to teach English to grades 7-12. She is a sometimes-adjunct, teaching writing composition and poetry for her alma mater.
Find her on twitter @TerriLinnDavis or contact her here.
Terri Linn Davis is an American poet and writer. She is the co-founder, co-editor, and the Xena: Warrior Princess of “Spin the Bottle,” for Icebreakers Lit. She is also the host of the sporadic podcast Too Lit To Quit: the Podcast for Literary Writers.
Terri is a first generation college student, and after working various odd jobs throughout her twenties, she graduated with her B.S. in English in 2018 and then with an MFA in Poetry from Southern Connecticut State University in 2021.
Her poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of The Net.
Some of her poems, fiction, craft talks, and poetry book reviews appear in Pithead Chapel, Taco Bell Quarterly,
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE & AWARDS
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Icebreakers Lit, Co-founder & Co-Editor in Chief, 2022-present
Icebreakers Lit is a journal featuring collaborative writing. It is edited by Terri Linn Davis, Aubri Kaufman, Daniel DeRock, and Lauren Theresa.
Five South, Associate Editor & Advisory Poetry Editor & Poetry Reader, 2021-2022
Noctua Review, Editor in Chief & Assistant Editor, 2019-2021
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Poet participant, Kenyon Review Winter Online Writer’s Workshop, Kenyon Review, January-March 2024
Recipient, $3000 Artist Fellowship Grant, CT Office of The Arts, May 2023-April 2024
Winner, “The Drunkies: Best Opening Line: ‘My Mother as Action Movie Villain,’” The Daily Drunk Mag, January 2023
Poet participant, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Kenyon College, Session 1, June 2022
Winner, Jack and Annie Smith Poets and Painters Award, Arts and Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University, 2018
Second & Third Place Winner, poems chosen by poet, Oliver de la Paz, Folio Literary Journal, Southern Connecticut State University, 2018
Winner, poem chosen for Editor’s Choice Award, Folio Literary Journal, Southern Connecticut State University, 2017
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Nominee, Sundress Publications Best of the Net Anthology, "On a Sunny Morning, I Teach My Four-Year-Old How To See My Bones From The Outside," written in collaboration with Abigail Hora, Spark to Flame Journal, August 2024
Nominee, Pushcart Prize XLVIIl, “An Etymology of Loss,” Five South, November 2022
Nominee, Sundress Publications Best of the Net Anthology, “My Mother as Action Movie Villain,” The Daily Drunk Mag, September 2022
Nominee, Sundress Publications Best of the Net Anthology, “An Etymology of Loss,” Five South, August 2022
“Terri Linn is a mind blowingly talented and brilliant writer. My baby kicks butt! Not only that . . .she is beautiful inside and out. A lot of her poems are from personal experience—you’re welcome for the fantastic fodder. ❤️❤️”
Bert • Mother of Terri Linn Davis