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). 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 Oklahoma sharecroppers. She was born in the early 1950s and was raised in a large extended family rich with banjo music and storytelling. She came of age in Southeast Los Angeles with roots in Compton, California where her life was divided between the city and the Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains. 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.
She lives with her family on the Northern California Coast, based between the ocean and redwoods.