Terese Marie Mailhot is a writer from Seabird Island Band and the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and a selection for PBS NewsHour and Emma Watson’s book clubs. Her second book, Whorl Stories, is forthcoming.

Her work has appeared in Time, The Guardian, Elle, Men’s Health, Orion, Guernica, Best American Essays 2019, Indian Country Today, and dozens of other publications. She’s appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CBC Radio, and her essays have been widely taught and anthologized.

Mailhot has taught creative writing at Purdue University, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and is currently on the MFA faculty at Ashland University. She’s the recipient of the Whiting Award, the Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, and the inaugural Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature.

Her work explores memory, trauma, love, and the Indigenous condition with lyricism, rage, and clarity. She writes to speak back, to speak through, and to survive.