About Teresa Nicholas
Teresa Nicholas is the author of the memoir Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest, published in 2011 by the University Press of Mississippi.
She has also published a biography of the writer Willie Morris with the Press, Willie: The Life of Willie Morris. She is currently writing a memoir/biography about her mother.
Nicholas has written for Delta, Mississippi, NPR's Opinion Page, Sol Literary Magazine, and South Writ Large, and she has 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 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 seventeen years, she has been on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and for several years she presented nonfiction workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference. She is a member of San Miguel PEN and Biographers International. Fluent in Spanish, and a certified yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance, she lives with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
She has also published a biography of the writer Willie Morris with the Press, Willie: The Life of Willie Morris. She is currently writing a memoir/biography about her mother.
Nicholas has written for Delta, Mississippi, NPR's Opinion Page, Sol Literary Magazine, and South Writ Large, and she has 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 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 seventeen years, she has been on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and for several years she presented nonfiction workshops at the San Miguel Writers Conference. She is a member of San Miguel PEN and Biographers International. Fluent in Spanish, and a certified yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance, she lives with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.