Terry Ann Carter

Terry Ann Carter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to Canada in 1965. After earning degrees in English and Music, and a graduate degree in Education, she taught language arts to students from kindergarten to college.

As a “poet-in-the-schools” funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, she has given hundreds of writing workshops to adolescents and adults. Her guidebook (Lighting the Global Lantern) for teaching haiku and related literary forms was published in 2011 and is used in many secondary schools in Canada. Terry Ann is president of Haiku Canada. She has given writing workshops in Singapore, France, the U.S., and Canada; in the summer of 2005, she was an instructor at the Teachers' Training Program, Dongzhou International Education Exchange Center, Haimen City, China. As past Chair of the Tabitha Foundation, she has travelled extensively throughout Cambodia, which is chronicled in her new collection – Day Moon Rising.

TAC was the Random Acts of Poetry poet for the city of Ottawa, from 2005-2010.

Publications

Hallelujah (Buschekbooks, 2012) (with French translation by Mike Montreuil)

Day Moon Rising (Black Moss Press, 2012)

Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms (Wintergreen Studios Press, 2011)

A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Ernest in Paris (Black Moss Press, 2010)

Transplanted (Borealis Press, 2006)

Waiting for Julia (Third Eye Press, 1999)

Anapanasati. chapbook (Cranberry Tree Press, 1997)

Awards

Finalist - Sandburg/Livesay Award 1998.

Finalist - Acorn Rukeyser Chapbook Award 1998.

First place - Montreal International Haiku Festival 2001.

First place - "people's choice" R.H. Blyth Award (haiku) Japan, 2002.

First Place - Basho Festival Contest, Japan, 2002.

First Place (haiku) Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival, 2007.

Origami Crane Award for “Best Poem of the Year” 2010.

Shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Poetry Award, 2011.