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Terra Oliveira is a writer, visual artist, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. She's written four books of poetry, including her most recent, Itinerant Songs (July 2025). A spoken word album of Itinerant Songs is set to be released with Hello America Stereo Cassette in early 2026, and her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and more.
Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2015, 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. She writes from a working class, anti-imperialist lens that also communicates the sanctity of things: of water, of land, of spirit, and of people. Her work is an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community building, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally. |
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