About me
Terri Lewis fell in love with history in college. Not the dates or wars, but the mysterious daily lives of people. Her debut, Behold the Bird in Flight, tells the story of an unknown British queen, Isabelle d’Angoulême, abducted by King John of Magna Carta fame. It was named one of 51 favorites of ’25 by the Washington Independent Review of Books. Her second fictionalizes her grandfather’s return from WWI with shellshock and her grandmother’s struggle to hold the family together. When They Came Home won the 2025 Miami University Press Novella Prize.
Terri’s writing has been honed through workshops with Jill McCorkle, Laura van den Berg, and Rebecca Makkai, and she has published in Embark, Hippocampus, Denver Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review among others. Her website is TerriLewis1.com.
