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 Adoptee Adoptive Family Network). 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), and Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging (University of Nebraska Press).
Terra has taught creative writing in schools, and with writers’ and storytellers’ workshops and mentoring corps. Of Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German descent, and the granddaughter of Oklahoma sharecroppers, she writes stories steeped in themes of home, place and belonging, her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.
Terra is available for readings, panel discussions, and for talk with book groups, writers group and other organizations.