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.
