Terry Wolverton is a literary artist and author of ten books of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Her novels are Stealing Angel (2011), The Labrys Reunion (2009) and Bailey's Beads (1996.) Embers (2002), a novel in poems, was a finalist for the PEN USA Litfest Poetry Award and the Lambda Book Award. Her poetry collections include Shadow and Praise (2007), Mystery Bruise (1999) and Black Slip (1992). Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the "Best Books of the West" in 2002 by the Los Angeles Times, winner of the 2003 Publisher's Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and a finalist for the Lambda Book Award. She has also recently released a collection of her short fiction, Breath and other stories. Wolverton has edited several successful compilations, including (with Robert Drake) the Lambda Literary Award-winning His: brilliant new fiction by gay men and Hers: brilliant new fiction by lesbians, volumes 1, 2, and 3; and the series Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction At the Millennium and Gay Fiction At the Millennium. She edited the poetry anthology, Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies and co-edited (with Sondra Hale) the anthology From Site to Vision: the Woman's Building in contemporary culture; published as an e-book in 2007, a print edition was released in fall 2011.

She is also currently working with composer David Ornette Cherry to adapt Embers as a jazz opera, to be directed by Michael John Garces. Terry has taught creative writing for over three decades; in 1997, she founded Writers at Work, a center for creative writing in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. She is also an Associate Faculty Mentor for the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. In addition, she is also a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga. Website: www.terrywolverton.xbuild.com.