Terra Trevor is the author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir. (University of Nebraska Press). 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, 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.
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – Living Legacies: Native Authors on Memoir and Memory
