Teresa Petro
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writing Instructor. Reader. Writer. Editor. Frequent Receptionist. |
| Location | Washington DC Metro Area, MD, United States |
| Introduction | Teresa Petro is poetry editor for www.shadysidereview.com. She received her MFA from Chatham University where she studied poetry, publishing, and travel writing. Teresa's poetry is published with The Coal Hill Review, Weave Magazine, Spooky Boyfriend, Anderbo, and The Little Patuxent Review, among others. She's a recipient of The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Award. Teresa can be reached at poetryeditor@shadysidereview.com or teresapetro@gmail.com. |
| Interests | Literary magazines, dreams, surreal experiences, lucid dreaming, poetry, auditory hallucinations, dialect, writing, dictionaries, dream dictionaries, time travel, food, wine, friends, random conversations, small presses, books, people watching (mainly from front porches/ patios or benches), travel. |
| Favorite movies | The Science of Sleep, Amelie, Coffee and Cigarettes, me and you and everyone we know, Donnie Darko,Down in the Valley, Vodka Lemon, Girls Can't Swim, Love Me If You Dare. |
| Favorite music | Dance Music. |
| Favorite books | Fiction: The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector), Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman), Henry and Cato (Iris Murdoch) Franny and Zoey (J.D. Salinger) A Spy in the House of Love (Anais Nin), The Little Friend (Donna Tartt) The Book and the Brotherhood (Iris Murdoch) The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) Poetry: Topography (Ruth Stone), How We Became Human (Joy Harjo), Open House (Beth Ann Fennelly), The Dream Songs (John Berryman), Lucky Wreck and This Big Fake World (Ada Limon), a theory of everything (Mary Crockett Hill), Domestic Interior (Stephanie Brown) |