About Teresa Nicholas
Teresa Nicholas is the author of Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in spring, 2011. The memoir was chosen by Delta magazine as one of the year's five best books, and it was nominated by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for its non-fiction award. She is currently at work on a biography of the writer Willie Morris for the University Press of Mississippi.
Nicholas is a contributing writer at Delta Magazine and has written for Mississippi Magazine, NPR's Opinion Page, SOL Literary Magazine, and South Writ Large. She has also been a travel writer for Fodor's in Mexico and Guatemala. Before turning to writing full time in 2002, she worked for twenty five years at the publisher Random House, where most recently she held the position of Vice President, Production, for the Crown Publishing Group. She was born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College. For the past decade, she has been on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and for the past several years she has presented nonfiction workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference. She lives in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, whose most recent book is Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya.
Nicholas is a contributing writer at Delta Magazine and has written for Mississippi Magazine, NPR's Opinion Page, SOL Literary Magazine, and South Writ Large. She has also been a travel writer for Fodor's in Mexico and Guatemala. Before turning to writing full time in 2002, she worked for twenty five years at the publisher Random House, where most recently she held the position of Vice President, Production, for the Crown Publishing Group. She was born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College. For the past decade, she has been on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and for the past several years she has presented nonfiction workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference. She lives in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, whose most recent book is Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya.
