Terra Trevor is an essayist and a memoirist, a contributor to fifteen books, and the author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky: A Mother's Story (KAAN). 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). She is the granddaughter of Oklahoma sharecroppers, born in the early 1950s and raised in Compton, California. Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German, her stories are steeped in themes of home, place and belonging, and her connection to the landscape.
