Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario and living in Toronto, Terri writes fiction, creative non-fiction and articles that have appeared in Prism, Geist, Grain, Accenti, Riddle Fence and MORE, among others. In 2010, she was selected as an Emerging Toronto Writer by the Diaspora Dialogues mentorship program. Her short story A Shout From God appears in the 2011 anthology TOK: Writing the New Toronto. Terri has been shortlisted three times for the CBC Literary Awards.