Basic Bio:

Terri Farley lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains with her journalist husband, two children and pets, but still longs for the California beaches where she grew up. She's worked as a waitress, journalist and teacher and now writes full-time, most often barefoot, with a cat on her lap. She is the author of Seven Tears into the Sea, the Phantom Stallion series for young readers and many nonfiction magazine articles.

School stuff:

Terri Farley has taught high school, middle school and college freshman English for much of her life. At San José State University, she earned a B.A. and Secondary teaching credential in English, then completed a Master's degree in Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. She's taught remedial reading in an inner-city school in Los Angeles, International Baccalaureate English in Reno, Nevada, and almost everything in between, including a semester helping lawyers write. She holds memberships in the National Council of Teachers of English, International Reading Association and the National Education Association.

Terri's Family

A few of their random accomplishments:

• State championship soccer player
  
• Green Beret
  
• Rescuer of a non-poisonous snake; repaid with a painful bite
  
• Teacher of self-defense to sorority girls
  
• Sewed up wound on own head
  
• Interviewed an actor who said he'd played an Oompa-Loompa in Charley and the Chocolate Factory
  
• Cooks amazing Crème Brulee
  
• Made 52 parachute jumps
  
• Liked Punk Rock before it was cool
  
• Drove a car which broke down in Possum Kingdom, Texas and still made it
  home to Nevada