Insideout Literary Arts Project

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Terry Blackhawk founded InsideOut Literary Arts Project while teaching high school creative writing in Detroit. Blackhawk is author of numerous essays, two chapbooks, and three full-length poetry collections: Body & Field, (MSU Press, 1999); Escape Artist (BkMk Press, 2003) which received the John Ciardi Poetry Prize; and The Dropped Hand (Marick Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and in journals such as Marlboro Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, Florida Review, Artful Dodge and on line at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She received the Foley Poetry Prize and several Pushcart nominations including two from Ekphrasis and one from Jim Daniels. Body & Field was a finalist for prizes from New Issues Press and Four Way Books as well as semifinalist for the Paumanok Award. Terry leads workshops on writing about art for the Detroit Institute of Arts and conducts graduate level writing classes for Oakland University, where she received her Ph.D. in Language Arts Education. Her awards include a Michigan Council for the Arts artist-in-residence grant, the Governor's Award for Art Education, and a Detroit Metro Times Progressive Hero Award. She was the 1990 Michigan Creative Writing Teacher of the Year and has been named the 2007 Bookwoman of the Year by the Detroit WNBA (Women?s National BOOK Association).

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