Terra Oliveira

Terra Oliveira is a writer, visual artist, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, and more. Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2016, and she has been awarded international residencies at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at the Great Wall of China, and elsewhere.

During the week, you can find her managing two bookstores in the North Bay. Born and raised throughout the San Francisco Bay Area (Ohlone, Bay Miwok, and Patwin land), she has been a resident of the San Geronimo Valley (unceded Coast Miwok land) since May 2023, and she is of Azorean-Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and mixed Eurasian descent. Her work is an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally.