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English: Terri L. Bailey at BLIXEL + Black Lunch Table's Gainesville Photo Booth, 2022. Photo by Kenya (Robinson). Terri L Bailey is from Gainesville, FL. She holds a MA in English and Creative Writing and Women's Studies. Terri lists her proudest writer achievements as 1) the inclusion of her COVID poem, Normally, in the national anthology, 2020: The Year that Changed America, 2) being first runner-up for Alachua County's first Poet Laureate, 3) winning Bethune Cookman University's 2009 writing competition with The Journey - an urban retelling of Dante's Inferno. She often incorporates her personal triumphs and her beloved African spirituality into her writing. Bailey sponsors annual poetry events and Writing to Heal and art instruction workshops. She is a YaYa (Priest) and Life Coach who encourages women to value their narratives and Black artists to share their work starting from the beginning of their artist's journey. She also crusades to ensure that artists are paid fairly and calls for the end of exposure instead of pay tradition.