Tereza Joy Kramer grew up in Ohio and began her journalism career at Ohio University, working as a news reporter for The Post. After college, she reported for United Press International in Mexico City. Journalism later took her to the Texas border, where her two daughters were born, and then to Indiana, where she began writing poems and discovered the world of art. She owes a debt of gratitude to leaders of the RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Indiana University Writers Conference, First Mondays critique group, the Evansville Writers Bloc, the Dadapalooza / Mamapalooza performative readings, and the Owensboro Third Tuesday Coffeehouse. Inspired by so many artists, Tereza pursued a Master of Fine Arts in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She particularly enjoyed creating and performing a live exhibit, "i," at The Glove Factory with other MFA artists and poets, and reading for "Women's Issues," a Linen Weave of Themes series on WFHB Radio in Bloomington. Tereza also discovered she enjoyed teaching and so pursued a PhD in rhetoric and composition, also at SIUC. She and her family then moved to Ellensburg, Washington, where she taught and directed the University Writing Center. From there, they relocated to the Bay Area, where she currently teaches and directs the Center for Writing Across the Curriculum at Saint Mary's College of California. Tereza's poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Cicada, The Iguana Review, 103 The Image Warehouse, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Open 24 Hours, and Re)verb. Her work also has been published in a variety of anthologies, namely Elements, Slipstream Press; Her Mark, Chicago Women Made Gallery; Migrants and Stowaways, Knoxville Writers Guild; Not a Muse: the inner lives of women, Haven Books; Poetic Voices Without Borders, Gival Press; Remembering the Days That Breathed Pink, Quaci Press; and Regrets Only: Contemporary Poets on the Theme of Regret, Little Pear Press.
