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Terra Trevor is an essayist, a memoirist, a contributor to fifteen books in Native American and Indigenous studies, Native literature, nonfiction and memoir. She is 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 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), 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 are shaped and infused by her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.
Some of the posts that appear on these pages are serious/substantial and are balanced with lighter topics. Many were first published decades ago. Some are new, and all were previously published in a variety of journals and other publications prior to posting here. Most of all, my writing is timeless (vs timely).
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