Terry Blackhawk

Terry Blackhawk holds a BA in literature from Antioch College and a PhD in language arts education from Oakland University.

She is the author of Doom & Beauty (Mayapple Press, 2026) and Maumee, Maumee (Alice Greene & Co., 2022), among other collections.

Blackhawk’s honors include the John Ciardi Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod International, a Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship, and an induction into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 2019. A retired Detroit public schools teacher and the founding director of the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Blackhawk lives in Hamden, Connecticut.