Terri Muuss, (BA in Theatre, Kean University & MSW, Hunter College), is a multi-career tour de force who balances a full-time social work gig with directing shows, writing books, speaking at conferences and colleges, running a private practice, performing her one-woman show, teaching writing workshops and curating a popular poetry series with her husband, author Matt Pasca.

Her poetry has appeared in dozens of publications and anthologies, including Atticus Review, Paterson Literary Review, Stirring, University of Indiana Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Luna Luna Magazine and Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, and her first book, Over Exposed (2013), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

She has read her work at venues in New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, Virginia, Florida, Washington DC, and throughout New York City and Long Island, including the 14th Street Y, Blue Stockings, Molloy College, Nassau and Suffolk Community Colleges, University of Tampa, The Walt Whitman Birthplace, Makor Theatre, The Inspired Word Series, LouderARTS, the 63rd St Y, St. Clement’s Theatre, Stony Brook University and the Cornelia Street Café.

For two years, Terri hosted and curated a monthly poetry event in NYC, Poetry at the Pulse, securing such masters as Roger Bonair-Agard, Sarah Jones, Alix Olsen, Lynne Procope, Stephen Coleman, and Suheir Hammed.

In 2015, Terri began curating Second Saturdays @Cyrus and, in 2016, co-edited an anthology of New York women poets entitled Grabbing the Apple.

Terri excels at adapting material for the stage, having adapted Deborah Ortiz’s Changing Violet and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, and has served as a consultant for a wide variety of writers looking to develop their work for the stage. She is also the editor of Matt Pasca's first poetry collection, A Thousand Doors. She currently runs an on-going writing workshop called the Sunday Grind and teaches writing workshops at many colleges, universities and conferences.

After years spent working the stages of New York City, Vermont and Dublin, Terri has also performed her one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll—named “Best Theatre: Critics’ Pick of the Week" by the New York Post—around the United States and Canada since 1998, and directed countless Off-Off-Broadway productions.

As a motivational speaker, artist and social worker, Muuss keynotes and runs workshops at conferences, colleges and high schools across the nation.