About Teresa Nicholas
Winner of the 2022 Life Writing Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL)
Teresa Nicholas is the author of the memoir Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest, the biography Willie: The Life of Willie Morris, and the just published memoir The Mama Chronicles, all from the University Press of Mississippi.
She has written essays and articles for The Bitter Southerner, NPR's Opinion Page, Delta and Mississippi magazines, South Writ Large, and Fodor’s in Mexico and Guatemala. Previously she worked at Random House, Inc., where she was Vice President, Production for the Crown Publishing Group. Born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she graduated from the Yazoo City public schools and matriculated to Swarthmore College, where she completed a degree in English Literature. For nearly twenty years she was on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Currently she is a student at Mississippi University for Women in their MFA Creative Writing Program. She is a member of San Miguel PEN, a certified yoga teacher, and fluent in Spanish. She lives with her college sweetheart and husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
She has written essays and articles for The Bitter Southerner, NPR's Opinion Page, Delta and Mississippi magazines, South Writ Large, and Fodor’s in Mexico and Guatemala. Previously she worked at Random House, Inc., where she was Vice President, Production for the Crown Publishing Group. Born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she graduated from the Yazoo City public schools and matriculated to Swarthmore College, where she completed a degree in English Literature. For nearly twenty years she was on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Currently she is a student at Mississippi University for Women in their MFA Creative Writing Program. She is a member of San Miguel PEN, a certified yoga teacher, and fluent in Spanish. She lives with her college sweetheart and husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.