Founding director (1995-2015) of Detroit’s InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk is a former high school Creative Writing teacher whose poems and essays have appeared widely. Her five full-length poetry collections include body & field, finalist for four first book awards; the 2002 John Ciardi prize-winner, Escape Artist; and One Less River, a Kirkus Reviews Best 2019 Poetry title. She has won the Pablo Neruda Prize, a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship, and grants from Michigan Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Maumee, Maumee, a chapbook memorializing her late-life love Toledo artist Neil Frankenhauser, was published in 2022.
