Terra is the granddaughter of Oklahoma sharecroppers, born in the early 1950s and raised in a large extended family rich with banjo music and storytelling. She grew up in Compton, California, where her childhood was divided between city life and camping in the Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains, pulling dinner from a lake. Of Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German descent, her stories are steeped in themes of home, place and belonging, her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.
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As an essayist and a memoirist Terra Trevor is a contributor to fifteen books, and is 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). 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 has taught creative writing in schools, and with writers’ and storytellers’ workshops and mentoring corps.
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