Vivian Teter's chapbook of poetry, Translating a Bridge, in part focuses on the theme of a bridge between privileged and marginalized peoples and includes poems for the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, with whom she has worked the past four years.  Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in Poetry East, Spoon River Poetry Review, Passages North, Missouri Review, Green Mountains Review, and other national journals. The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict will publish a five-poem sequence of her work in its forthcoming issue. A graduate of Hollins University (BA) and the University of Arizona (MFA), she has been awarded writing fellowships at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as well as Byrdcliffe Artists Colony.  She currently teaches literature and creative writing at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia.