Terra Trevor is an essayist, a memoirist, a contributor to fifteen books, and the author of two memoirs, We Who Walk the Seven Ways (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky: A Mother's Story (KAAN: Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network). Her essays and memoirs appear widely in anthologies, including Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of New Mexico Press), Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education (The University of Arizona Press), Voices Confronting Pediatric Brain Tumors (John Hopkins University Press), The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (University of Oklahoma Press), Take A Stand: Art Against Hate (A Raven Chronicles Anthology), and Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging (University of Nebraska Press). 

Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, German, her stories are steeped in themes of place and belonging, and are shaped and infused by her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.