Becoming the Blue Heron

Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Her work has received multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, Atlanta Review International Publication Award, International Book Award for Poetry, Gold Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, and many others. Her poems have appeared in "American Life in Poetry," Annals of Internal Medicine, Asheville Poetry Review, JAMA, Latin American Literary Review, NASA News & Notes, Poet's Market, Sport Literate, The Christian Century, The SUN, The Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily, and numerous other literary journals, anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. She lives with her husband in North Carolina.