Terra Trevor is the author of two memoirs, We Who Walk the Seven Ways (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky (KAAN). Her essays appear widely 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 Women in a Golden State: California Poets at 60 and Beyond (Gunpowder Press). She is the granddaughter of sharecroppers, born in the early 1950s, and raised in Compton, California. Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, German, her stories are steeped in themes of place, belonging, and her connection to the landscape.
I’m available for readings, panel discussions, and I would be delighted to talk with your book group, writers group or other organization.