Maria Terrone
Maria Terrone (May 21, Manhattan) is an American poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry: "Eye to Eye" (2014), "A Secret Room in Fall" (2006) and "The Bodies We Were Loaned" (2002). She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and has received the Individual Artist Initiative Award from the Queens Council on the Arts. Her poetry ranges widely in subject, including themes of history, family and contemporary urban environments. Life and career. Terrone grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of  Arts in English. In the early years of her career, she worked as a journalist, magazine editor and in corporate communications. In 1990, she joined the City University of New York: first at Hunter College as director of public relations and, in 2003, after moving to Queens College, as Assistant Vice President for Communications. She lives in Jackson Heights with her husband, William Terrone. Terrone's poetry has been published in many prestigious literary magazines and anthologies, such as Poetry, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poetry International, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Alfred A. Knopf Everyman's Library , Beacon Press, CavanKerry Press and The Feminist Press. Due to her association with Queens as an author and resident, she was selected to write a narrative for The Guggenheim Museum's "Transhistoria," the third edition of stillspotting nyc, a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the Guggenheim’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs.