Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize  (Mad Creek Books, 2021) and Haint, (Gival Press, 2021) winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.
 
In 2022 she was one of two state-wide winners of a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award. She is the 2020 winner of the Poetry Society of America's (PSA) Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and a finalist for the PSA's George Bogin Memorial Award. She is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts grant and a Meret grant from the Freya Project.
 
A Cave Canem fellow, she has been awarded scholarships, residencies and fellowships to attend the Community of Writers Workshop, Hedgebrook, the Soul Mountain Writer’s Retreat, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has been a semi-finalist and finalist judge for the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud. She serves on the Board of Directors for Cave Canem, and the boards of Lit Youngstown and Poetry Daily.
 
Her work has been published in many anthologies including: Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, Growing Up Girl, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, Not Without Our Laughter: poems of joy, humor, and sexuality, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, Rocked By The Waters, and Choice Words.

Her work can be read online and in the following journals: Academy of American Poets, ArLiJo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Delaware Poetry Review, Figure 1, Fledgling Rag, Gargoyle, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Kestrel, Little Patuxent Review, Love’s Executive Order, Natural Bridge, North American Review, Mom Egg Review, MiPOesias, Pacifica Literary Review, PANK, Poetry Daily, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, Raising Mothers, Rosebud, Tin House, Torch, and Sligo Journal.

 ** Summer 2026 Upcoming work can be read in Prairie Schooner, The Hopkins Review, and Shenandoah Literary.

She was the HoCoPoLitSo (Howard County Poetry and Literature Society) Writer-in-Residence for 2019-2020 and an adjunct professor at George Washington University for 2019-2020. She was the Nora Roberts Foundation Writer in Residence for Hood College in 2026. She curated the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. for twenty years.

She is currently the Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus. and consults on independent literary projects. She lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their two teens.