about me
A Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem and The Watering Hole, teri elam is a poet, prose writer, and screenwriter. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Future of Black, Kwame Alexander’s This Is The Honey, The Rumpus, and Callaloo Literary Journal. A Pushcart nominee, Two Sylvias Wilder Poetry Prize finalist, and two‑time Perugia Press finalist, teri has also earned multiple screenplay honors, including Best Half Hour Pilot Script at the 2024 Nashville Film Festival, finalist for the 2025 Bellem Entertainment/Stowe Story Lab Retreat, and Second Rounder for both the 2025 Austin Film Festival and the 2026 ISA Diversity Initiative. A Tuskegee University alum, teri holds a master’s degree in HR from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Stonecoast/ University of Southern Maine.
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