Maria Terrone’s poetry collections are Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press 2014); A Secret Room in Fall, winner of the 2005 Robert McGovern Publication Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works 2002); and a chapbook, American Gothic, Take 2 (Finishing Line Press 2009). Her magazine credits include Poetry, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and Poetry International, and her work has appeared in more than twenty anthologies. In 2012, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned her to write an essay for a New York City performance project taking place in her neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, which inspired more essays. Her nonfiction has appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Potomac Review, Kestrel, and The Common.