Terry Wolverton is the author of five books. Her most recent, Embers, is a novel-in-poems about which poet Anne Waldman has said, "this book is a commitment to the beauties and scintillating particulars of a generous language. This is a tremendous weave of site and humanity." It is a finalist for the Lambda Book Award. Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was the winner of the 2003 Publisher's Triangle Judy Grahn Award, finalist for the Lambda Book Award, and named one of the"Best Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times. Her novel, Bailey's Beads, was a finalist in the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Awards for 1997; Kirkus Reviews said of it, "her ambitious debut features a stark but melodious prose style confident style and affecting characters." She has also published two collections of poetry: Black Slip, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 1993, and Mystery Bruise. Her fiction, poetry, essays and drama have been published in periodicals internationally, including Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Glimmer Train Stories, and Zyzzyva, and widely anthologized.

She has also edited several successful compilations: Harbinger: poetry and fiction by Los Angeles writers; Indivisible: short fiction by West Coast gay and lesbian writers; Blood Whispers: L.A. Writers on AIDS, Volumes 1 and 2; 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. In 2000, she began collaborating as a writer with choreographer Heidi Duckler and Collage Dance Theater on the site-specific performances subVersions, Under Eden, After Eden, and Cover Story. She is currently working to develop a stage version of Embers. Terry has taught creative writing for over twenty-five years; in 1997, she founded Writers at Work, a center for creative writing in Los Angeles, where she offers several weekly workshops in fiction and poetry. She spent thirteen years at the Woman's Building, a public center for women's culture, eventually serving as its executive director. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her artistic and community contributions, most recently, a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship for Poetry.

She is also a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga.