Writing, Reading and Living


Terra Trevor is an essayist, a memoirist, a contributor to fifteen books, and the author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press). Her essays are widely published in anthologies, including Tending the Fire: Native Voices 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. 
 
Author's Note 
Some of the essays and stories included here are serious/substantial and are balanced with lighter topics. Most of all, my writing is timeless vs timely. 
 
Thank you to the editors where these pieces were first published.