Terry Taplin

Terry Taplin is a poet, editor, and activist born and raised in West Berkeley. He serves as Peace and Justice Commissioner for the City of Berkeley, Vice-Chair of the Transportation Commissioner, and is an Ad 15 Associate of the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee. He holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College where he served as the Lambda Literary Fellow. He is the former Poetry Editor of MARY: A Journal for New Writing, and is Social Media Managing Editor at Fruity Feline Press. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016), and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. Terry is running for the Berkeley City Council in District 2.