Terri Witek

Terri Witek (born Therese Ann Damm in Sandusky, Ohio ^[1]) is a US poet. Her collections include "Body Switch" (2016) "Exit Island" (2012), The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); and Courting Couples (2000), a Center for Book Arts Prize winner,^[2] She is also the author of Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self. Throughout her career she has worked with visual artists, and the reverberations ll between mediums is explored in much of her work. Her collaborations with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes include solo shows at the Crisp Ellert Museum (2014), The Blue Gallery in Chania, Greece (2014), the Hand Art Center (2012), the Markland House Museum (2010), and the Faulconer Gallery (2010). They also participated in group shows at the Chosunilbo Museum, Korea (2014), Art in Odd Places, NYC (2012), and Contemporary Flanerie: Reconfiguring Cities, Oakland University Gallery, MI (2009).Their performances have been seen at the Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal (2014), The Salford Museum, Manchester, England (2013), and Recession Art, NYC,(2012). They have worked on videos, sound pieces, installations, and experimental media and together teach Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University's low residency MFA of the Americas. Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek have been collaborating since 2005. They have had solo shows at the Crisp Ellert Museum (2014), The Blue Gallery in Chania, Greece (2014), the Hand Art Center (2012), the Markland House Museum (2010), and the Faulconer Gallery (2010). They also participated in group shows at the Chosunilbo Museum, Korea (2014), Art in Odd Places, NYC (2012), and Contemporary Flanerie: Reconfiguring Cities, Oakland University Gallery, MI (2009). Their performances have been seen at the Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal (2014), The Salford Museum, Manchester, England (2013), and Recession Art, NYC,(2012). They have worked on videos, sound pieces, installations, and experimental media. http://cyriacolopes.com/currents-correntes/ New media artist Matt Roberts and Witek have collaborated on interactive smart phone projects that have likewise been featured both nationally and internationally. cyriacolopes.com/currents-correntes/ www.terriwitek.com

Witek holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and, in addition to teaching Poetry in the Expanded Field in the graduate program, directs the undergraduate Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, where she holds the Art & Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing.^[3] In 2000, she received the McInery Award for Teaching, and in 2008, she received the John Hague Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the liberal arts and sciences.^[4]

She is married to comic book scholar Joseph Witek.

References

1. Poet of the Month
2. Faculty Page
3. http://www.stetson.edu/english/faculty.php
4. Professor Terri Witek wins John Hague Teaching Award at Stetson University