She has an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Washington. She has received the Norman Mailer/NCTE non-fiction award, the Pacific Northwest Writers 2017 essay prize, a Travelers’ Tales Solas Gold award, and was a finalist for the 2017 Annie Dillard creative nonfiction contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Anchor Magazine, Obra/Artifact, Snapdragon, Dos Gatos, Tidepools, and Gold Man Review. Teresa lives in the Pacific Northwest where she is at work on a memoir about a year in Ecuador.