Terese Marie Mailhot

Seabird Island Band · authors

Terese Marie Mailhot is a member of the Seabird Island Band in British Columbia, Canada. Her debut memoir "Heart Berries" (2018) became a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by multiple publications. The memoir is a raw, poetic account of growing up on the Seabird Island Indian Reserve, grappling with intergenerational trauma, mental illness, and the complexities of Indigenous womanhood. Mailhot's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous literary journals. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and has been recognized with the Whiting Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her voice is essential in contemporary Indigenous literature.