Terry Godbey

Terry Godbey is a poet based in Orlando, Florida, who began writing poetry seriously in 1999. The pages describe five poetry books and several hundred poems in literary magazines. Slipstream is one of the magazines where Godbey has published, and Behind Every Door, the first collection, won the Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Contest. Godbey's awards include the Rita Dove Poetry Award and the Quercus Review Poetry Book Award. Tango, the fifth collection, was published by Kelsay Books in 2025. Before focusing on poetry, Godbey worked for decades as a newspaper editor and then as a corporate writer, including at Darden Restaurants and Marriott Vacations Worldwide.