About Centa Therese

Centa Therese is a poet, photoartist, and interdisciplinary educator whose work weaves together language, body, and image to illuminate the mysteries of the human experience. Her newly published poetry collection, the myth of me (2025), by Kelsay Books invites readers into raw dreamscapes and intimate inner reckonings—poems described as “subterranean mirrors” by poet Annie Finch. Through her words, Therese creates spaces where silence becomes language, wounds become wisdom, and the myth of isolation is unraveled by a deeper belonging. Her collection of prose poems Night Gardening is looking for a publisher. Its title poem is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Spring of 2026. Therese has authored three collections of poems, a memoir, and has edited a collection by women in recovery. Most recently, she has been learning meter and form from Annie Finch, Ph.d., alchemizing iPhone photos and tending to her three cats.

Her work can also be found at centatherese.com and centatheresestudios.com.