Terra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs (July 2025), and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her poems have appeared 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. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, her family lineages migrated from the Hawaiian Islands, the Azores, Southern China, Guadalajara, and throughout Europe. 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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