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Terra Oliveira is a writer, visual artist, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Protean Magazine, and more.
Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2016, and she has been awarded international residencies at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at the Great Wall of China, and elsewhere. With a degree in documentary film production from San Francisco State University, she has published two photography books featured in BUST Magazine, SELF Magazine, and others, and her films have screened at Napa Valley Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and around the world. During the week, you can find her managing two bookstores in the North Bay. Born and raised throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been a resident of West Marin since May 2023, and she is of Azorean-Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and mixed Eurasian descent. Her work is an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally. |
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