Terri Stoor, a New Orleans member of the Words & Music Writers Alliance and founding member of the Peauxdunque Writers’ Alliance. Terri won the 2011 Gold Medal for best Short Story in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for her story, A Belly Full of Sparrow, and was runner up that same year in the essay category for Bird Dog. She was a finalist in the 2010, 2012 and 2013 ccompetitions When not writing, she divides her time between the office of a national women’s organization, taming her daughters, and teaching her Labrador retriever to smile on command. Terri met her agent at Words & Music, 2011. Jeff Kleinmann, among critiquing agents that year, read Terri’s work and signed her. Currently, she is working on a novel.