Teri Youmans Grimm is the author of two poetry collections, Dirt Eaters (University Press of Florida) and Becoming Lyla Dore (Red Hen Press, upcoming spring 2016). Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Sugar House Review, Green Mountains Review and Homegrown in Florida: An Anthology of Florida Childhoods. She teaches in the University of Nebraska at Omaha's low-residency MFA program and lives in Jacksonville, Florida where she sings in a cover band and hunts alligators.
The summer and early fall of 1974 replays like a gritty movie in my head, a 70s era Lumet or Scorsese, elements of cinema verite, but stylized, heightened.