teri elam has poems forthcoming in Slice Magazine and Auburn Avenue. She received an honorable mention in december magazine’s Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Award contest for a poem about international jewel thief, Doris Payne. A Cave Canem Fellow and VONA alum, teri will complete her MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast in July 2019 and is the poetry editor for The Stonecoast Review.