Tera Kelley grew up reading among the towering Douglas firs and pungent cedars of the Pacific Northwest. As a children's bookseller for six years, she watched kids race, skip, and crawl in the direction of the children's book section with the same eagerness she felt at that age. Her first book Ocean Baby was selected for the ocean curriculum of Santa Cruz's Migrant Head Start Program. During her two decades in book publishing, Tera has edited manuscripts and read submissions at Dawn Publications, Copper Canyon Press, and Wave Books. She is currently a freelance writer and editor in Northern California, where she works at a local library. Find out more about her work at www.terakelley.com.

Tera Kelley grew up reading among the towering Douglas firs and pungent cedars of the Pacific Northwest. As a children's bookseller for six years, she watched kids race, skip, and crawl in the direction of the children's book section with the same eagerness she felt at that age. Her first book Ocean Baby was selected for the ocean curriculum of Santa Cruz's Migrant Head Start Program. During her two decades in book publishing, Tera has edited manuscripts and read submissions at Dawn Publications, Copper Canyon Press, and Wave Books. She is currently a freelance writer and editor in Northern California, where she works at a local library. Find out more about her work at www.terakelley.com.

Tera Kelley grew up reading among the towering Douglas firs and pungent cedars of the Pacific Northwest. As a children's bookseller for six years, she watched kids race, skip, and crawl in the direction of the children's book section with the same eagerness she felt at that age. Her first book Ocean Baby was selected for the ocean curriculum of Santa Cruz's Migrant Head Start Program. During her two decades in book publishing, Tera has edited manuscripts and read submissions at Dawn Publications, Copper Canyon Press, and Wave Books. She is currently a freelance writer and editor in Northern California, where she works at a local library. Find out more about her work at www.terakelley.com.