Terri Witek
Professor of English
Sillivan Chair in Creative Writing
Terri Witek is the author of "Exit Island" (2012), "The Shipwreck Dress" (2008), "Carnal World" (2006)," Fools and Crows" (2003), "Courting Couples" (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Prize), and "Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self." Her projects with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes include works on paper, video and site-specific installation. The first retrospective of their work was shown at Grinnell College’s Faulconer Gallery in April, 2010 and featured a collaborative multi-media event, "the day you left," currently on tour. In November 2010 a site-specific project in St. Augustine Fla., "A Shelter on King’s Road," placed the trace of Martin Luther King’s firebombed cottage within the historic Markland House. Witek has been awarded fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers Conference and Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat, and has served on the poetry faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Prague Summer Literary Seminars. She holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing and directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program.
Education
- Ph.D./M.A., Vanderbilt University
Research
- Current projects include work on Elizabeth Bishop and Brazil, as well as a poetic intermedia game, Uma Coisa Na’ Outra, with visual artist Cyriaco Lopes.
Courses
- Poetry Workshops
- Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Publications
- "Exit Island" (2012)
- "The Shipwreck Dress" (2008)
- "Carnal World" (2005)
- "Fools and Crows" (2003)
- "Courting Couples" (winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Prize)
- "Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self" (1993)
- Poems in American Poetry Review, Slate, The New Republic, Poetry, The Hudson Review, Threepenny Review, etc.
