Terra Trevor is the author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky (KAAN). Her essays are widely published in anthologies, including Tending the Fire: Native Voices 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.
Of mixed-blood Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German descent, Terra is the granddaughter of Oklahoma sharecroppers. 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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