Terry Farish
Biography
Terry Farish is the author of The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup, illustrated by Barry Root and published by Candlewick. The Cat won a lot of stars and a Blue Ribbon from the Center for the Study of Children's Books, as well as New Hampshire's award for Outstanding Work of Children's Literature.
She's the author of the middle grade novel, Talking in Animal, the YA novel, Why I'm Already Blue, both published by Greenwillow to starred reviews, and the adult novel, If the Tiger, a novel about a young survivor from war in Cambodia that the New York Times called a Cambodian-American "Thelma and Louise."
Terry has been a children's librarian in the multicultural cities of Leominster and Lawrence, Massachusetts and a writing instructor at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine where she gathered stories from many refugees from Southern Sudan. Through the organization Amesbury for Africa, she is working with teachers in a western Kenyan village to develop a reading-in-the-home project called Mleta wa Hadithi ("Stories are Coming" in Swahili).
She's the author of the middle grade novel, Talking in Animal, the YA novel, Why I'm Already Blue, both published by Greenwillow to starred reviews, and the adult novel, If the Tiger, a novel about a young survivor from war in Cambodia that the New York Times called a Cambodian-American "Thelma and Louise."
Terry has been a children's librarian in the multicultural cities of Leominster and Lawrence, Massachusetts and a writing instructor at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine where she gathered stories from many refugees from Southern Sudan. Through the organization Amesbury for Africa, she is working with teachers in a western Kenyan village to develop a reading-in-the-home project called Mleta wa Hadithi ("Stories are Coming" in Swahili).
