River of Words

Terra Trevor is the author of two memoirs, We Who Walk the Seven Ways (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky (KAAN: Korean Adoptee Adoptive Family Network). She is a contributor to fifteen books in Native and Indigenous studies, literature, nonfiction and memoir. Her essays are widely published 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), The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (University of Oklahoma Press), Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging (University of Nebraska Press), and Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging, forthcoming from Beacon Press, Fall 2026. Terra is the granddaughter of sharecroppers. Of Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German descent, her stories steeped in themes of home, place and belonging, her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape. 

Author's Note

I've moved to a new address. You can now find me writing at Words Facing West on Substack.