About Teresa Nicholas
Teresa Nicholas is the author of the memoir Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest and the biography Willie: The Life of Willie Morris, both published by the University Press of Mississippi. She has recently finished a memoir about her mother, The Mama Chronicles, which will publish in 2021.
Teresa has written essays and articles for The Bitter Southerner, NPR's Opinion Page, Delta and Mississippi magazines, and South Writ Large, among others, and was a travel writer for Fodor's in Mexico and Guatemala. Before turning to writing full time, she worked at Random House, where she was Vice President, Production, for the Crown Publishing Group. Born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College. For many years she was 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, a certified yoga teacher, and fluent in Spanish. She lives with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Teresa has written essays and articles for The Bitter Southerner, NPR's Opinion Page, Delta and Mississippi magazines, and South Writ Large, among others, and was a travel writer for Fodor's in Mexico and Guatemala. Before turning to writing full time, she worked at Random House, where she was Vice President, Production, for the Crown Publishing Group. Born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College. For many years she was 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, a certified yoga teacher, and fluent in Spanish. She lives with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich, in Jackson, Mississippi, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.