 Teresa
Méndez-Quigley won second prize in the Annual
Mad Poets Competition in 2000 and her poem “Dreaming
In Italian” won Judge’s Choice award in
2001. Teresa was one of five winners in the 'Significant
Other' competition for emerging women poets, resulting
in a reading performance at the Painted Bride Arts
Center in Philadelphia in 2002. In 2004, she was selected
poet laureate by Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Since
2000, Teresa has studied with poet Christopher Bursk.
Her poems have appeared in four volumes of the Mad
Poets Review, Drexel Online Journal, Philadelphia
Poets, Feile Festa, California Quarterly, Freshet,
and the anthology, Not What I Expected.
Teresa
has a Masters in Social Work and works in the field
of environmental health. She and her husband also
own Healthy Spaces, and reside in Springfield Township.
For fun, she’s now trying to learn Gaelic.
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