The Day I Stopped Being Adorable
The Day I Stopped Being Adorable by Terri Carrion
About Terri Carrion
Terri Carrión was conceived in Venezuela and born in New York to a Galician mother and Cuban father. She grew up in Los Angeles where she spent her youth skateboarding and slam-dancing. Terri Carrión earned her MFA at Florida International University in Miami.
Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published in many print magazines as well as online, including The Cream City Review, Hanging Loose, Pearl, Penumbra, Exquisite Corpse, and Dead Drunk Dublin among others. Her chapbook “Lazy Tongue” was published by D Press in the summer of 2007.
Her poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish and Arabic and have been published in international anthologies, most recently in Nuova Antologia di Poesia Americana (New Anthology of American Literature), (Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, Italy 2015).
Currently she is assistant editor and art designer for Bigbridge.org, an online literary and arts magazine and co-founder of the global movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change.