https://www.dawnterpstra.com/home daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://www.dawnterpstra.com/bio daily 0.75 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd68e17674bc6778f41bb77/1607899281646-XEW5PXGA1BC1KWITLFN1/41Dawn.jpg Bio https://www.dawnterpstra.com/about daily 1.0 2023-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd68e17674bc6778f41bb77/1607899281646-XEW5PXGA1BC1KWITLFN1/41Dawn.jpg About Dawn Terpstra is a poet, writer and beekeeper living in rural Iowa. Her poetry appears in current and forthcoming publications including Verse Daily, Pratik, Halfway Down the Stairs, Midwest Quarterly, Quartet, Briar Cliff Review, Ekphrastic Review, SWWIM and others. She is the author of a chapbook, Songs from the Summer Kitchen (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is currently the Poetry Editor for River Heron Review. She is a graduate of Iowa State University with masters degrees in anthropology and human development and family studies. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University. https://www.dawnterpstra.com/poems-1 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://www.dawnterpstra.com/books daily 0.75 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd68e17674bc6778f41bb77/7cfe8f61-fc1e-401f-90d8-302d941b53eb/SFSK+Cover.jpg Books Terpstra is that rare poet who weaves narrative and lyric so seamlessly, the reader falls under a powerful spell. Songs from the Summer Kitchen may take just a few hours or a few days to read, but the poems inhabit a space far beyond the pages on which they're printed. "Sisters, you know how it is:/sleeping face-to-face on the floor in the girls' room. . ." There is something so exalted and, at times, so arresting at work in this chapbook. Spanning years and continents, Terpstra's work focuses sharply on a world that can be small as a dandelion and as endless as the horizon. Rendered with care, this collection is a reverie. Dara-Lyn Shrager, Author of Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee https://www.dawnterpstra.com/training daily 0.75 2021-12-08 https://www.dawnterpstra.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-12-08