Teri Youmans

Teri Youmans is a fourth-generation Floridian who lives in Jacksonville. She is a poet and writer who has published two poetry collections, Dirt Eaters and Becoming Lyla Dore. She is working on a memoir. She teaches as a mentor in the University of Nebraska at Omaha's low-residency MFA program and has taught at Creighton University and the University of North Florida. Her writing has appeared in The Keepthings, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus, among other journals.