Teresa H. Klepac

Teresa H. Klepac lives in Missouri, and is a member of the Columbia Writers Group, The Merry Bombadils Chapter of the Missouri State Poetry Society (MSPS), and the on-line community Of Rust and Glass, A Midwest Creative Community. A writer, editor, and publications designer both freelance and in higher education, she served as the MSPS’ editor and publications designer for Spare Mule newsletter from 2015-2016. Teresa has published flash fiction in Still Points Art Quarterly, Blood and Bourbon, Pure Slush and BlueHouse Literary Journal. Of Rust and Glass Magazine published Snowbound Missouri Winter. Her poetry has appeared in Penumbra On-Line, Tigershark and Medusa’s Kitchen. Her work Agoraphobia is now our new Normal – Safe Person was included in the anthology Hard Times Happen flash fiction literary competition April 2020. Her poetry has received awards from MSPS Winter Contest 2022 and 2023: 3rd Honorable Mention free verse for Shattered Lives and 3rd place members only for The Surge of the Sea (2022) and 3rd Honorable Mention for Cut the Too Tight String (Winter 2023).