Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, 2019 winner of The Journal/Charles B. 

Wheeler Poetry Prize  and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.  She is the 2022 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize. She has received fellowships and scholarships to Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and more. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Harvard Review, PANK,  Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review.  She  shares her home in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their children.