Terra Trevor is an essayist and the author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press), and Pushing up the Sky: A Memoir (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), Voices Confronting Pediatric Brain Tumors (John Hopkins University Press), Take A Stand: Art Against Hate (Raven Chronicles), 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 a large extended family in a banjo and fiddle tradition, rich with storytelling and music. She grew up in Compton, California, where her childhood was divided between the city and camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains, pulling dinner from a lake. Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca and German, her stories are steeped in themes of place and belonging, and are shaped and infused by her identity as a mixed-blood, and her connection to the landscape.