Author
Terri is a talented poet whose two collections, Over Exposed (JB Stillwater, 2013) and Godspine (3: A Taos Press, 2020) have garnered wide acclaim. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals, magazines, and anthologies, and she has taught writing workshops at a variety of colleges, conferences, and community centers.
Praise for Godspine:
“Muuss brings us close to what we might describe as the secret war, the intimate war, which resides in closed rooms, in seemingly ordinary homes. Yet these poems are written with such delicacy, such concern for image, for pause, and purpose—for, in fact, beauty. Yes, these poems and prose pieces turn on the beauty of poetry, of what art can accomplish. I bid you open the book. It is a miracle.”
— Veronica Golos, author of Vocabulary of Silence and winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award
“Terri Muuss never misses a beat--she has created poetry that straddles the terrible gulf between personal horror and the fictionalizing process that makes dealing with personal horror possible. This is poetry that demands to be read. It lives between myth and the monsters which make myth-making necessary. You will admire her fearlessness; you will admire even more the theatrical finesse with which she reveals just enough and no more, leaving it to your imagination to fill in the gap. A captivating collection that will rattle your cage and takes no prisoners.”
— George Wallace, Long Island Suffolk County Poet Laureate
Praise for Over Exposed:
“Muuss brings us close to what we might describe as the secret war, the intimate war, which resides in closed rooms, in seemingly ordinary homes. Yet these poems are written with such delicacy, such concern for image, for pause, and purpose—for, in fact, beauty. Yes, these poems and prose pieces turn on the beauty of poetry, of what art can accomplish. I bid you open the book. It is a miracle.”
— Veronica Golos, author of Vocabulary of Silence and 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner
“Terri Muuss never misses a beat--she has created poetry that straddles the terrible gulf between personal horror and the fictionalizing process that makes dealing with personal horror possible. This is poetry that demands to be read. It lives between myth and the monsters which make myth-making necessary. You will admire her fearlessness; you will admire even more the theatrical finesse with which she reveals just enough and no more, leaving it to your imagination to fill in the gap. A captivating collection that will rattle your cage and takes no prisoners.”
— George Wallace, Long Island Suffolk County Poet Laureate
