Terra Trevor 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: Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Families Network). 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), Voices Confronting Pediatric Brain Tumors (Johns Hopkins University Press), Take A Stand: Art Against Hate (A Ravens Chronicle Anthology), and in numerous other books and literary journals. She is the granddaughter of Oklahoma sharecroppers, born in 1953 and raised in Compton, California. Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German, her stories are steeped in themes of home, place, belonging, and are shaped and infused by her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.
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