Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union (Mad Creek Books), winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and Haint (Gival Press), winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, she lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis, and their two children. Their website is www.poetsandparents.com.