Beautiful Cover Art by Diane Christiansen

Earlier this year my poetry manuscript Bite and Blood was selected by Finishing Line Press to be published this fall. The limited edition chapbook is handmade by this small press in Kentucky, and includes poems inspired by relationships between people and the natural environment and history of where I live in Lake Tahoe, California. Diane Christiansen donated the art for this startling and provocative cover:


I encourage you to buy the book during the advance purchase period that ends September 5th. Buying during the advance purchase period not only saves money, but helps the publisher determine the chapbook's press run. The official release date is October 18th.

The purchase price is $14.00 and shipping is $2.99. To order by Credit Card or PayPal visit https://finishinglinepress.com/index.php?cPath=2&sort=2a&filter_id=1755
 If you prefer to order by check or money order (payable to Finishing Line Press), print up this post and send it with your payment to: Finishing Line Press, PO Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324.

Please share this news with any family or friends who are poetry fans. A book party/reading will be planned this fall, so stay tuned! Thanks for your time, and I hope you will consider buying my book. :)

Happy reading!
Karen Terrey

Chapbook Now Available For Presale

As you have heard, earlier this year my poetry manuscript Bite and Blood was selected by Finishing Line Press to be published this fall. 

I encourage you to buy the book during the advance purchase period that begins this week and extends for two months. Buying during the advance purchase period not only saves money, but helps the publisher determine the chapbook's press run. The official release date is October 18th.

The purchase price is $14.00 and shipping is $2.99. To order by Credit Card or PayPal visit https://finishinglinepress.com/index.php?cPath=2&sort=2a&filter_id=1755 If you prefer to order by check or money order (payable to Finishing Line Press), send your payment to: Finishing Line Press, PO Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324.

Here is what is being said about the collection: 

"Starvation--emotional, spiritual, sexual—how we survive it, how we replenish ourselves and others is at the core of Karen Terrey’s Bite and Blood. The gorgeous tension in these poems is in a “secret cellular awareness” that comes from Terrey’s fearless walks in the literal and metaphoric wilds: woods, wide fields, marshes. Like a lone traveler assembling shelter out of what can be found on a forest floor, Terrey places lines like old timber or found stone to erect poems made of human and animal soul. In her title poem, her speaker faces a deer on the path and meditates on his “slow hunger”, a hunger not unlike our own and so necessary our lives depend upon it. A beautiful collection."

--Laura McCullough, author of Rigger Death & Hoist Another and Panic (winner Kenerith Gensler Award)

Please, please, please share this news with any family or friends who are poetry fans. A book party/reading will be planned this fall, so stay tuned!  Thanks for your time, and I hope you will consider buying my book.