Books By Terry Wolverton

Terry Wolverton, 2011

Maggie Seaver is on the run. With Angel, the seven-year-old she has raised with her estranged ex-partner. When she finds out Angel has been abused by a caregiver, she grabs her and flees to the Southern Baja. With her ex-lover, the FBI, and the American media in pursuit, Maggie cannot afford to trust any help she finds along the way. She can only rely on her instincts and her source of spiritual strength.

Terry Wolverton, 2024

Marielle Wing is a highly popular literary novelist whose triumphs on the page are matched only by her failures in finding and loving another woman. After witnessing a terrorist bombing at JFK airport, Homeland Security forces her into the Witness Security Program. She convinces herself this identity shift will be temporary, until she reads her own obituary in The New York Times. She feels stripped of everything she valued and utterly alone. But will even these measures be enough to keep her safe?

Terry Wolverton, 2009

When a young woman is raped and murdered, her mother and her radical feminist colleagues gather to mourn and assess the shortcomings of their movement; why couldn’t this have been prevented? But a younger generation wants to solve the crime and exact revenge.

Terry Wolverton, 2002

In Insurgent Muse, Terry Wolverton chronicles her own 13-year involvement in the Woman's Building, a public center for women’s culture in Los Angeles. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, she stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project and, eventually, the Building's executive director. Her journey–emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism–entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash.

Terry Wolverton, 2013

"Why are not my arms outstretched to greet the day, instead of my jaw clenched to withstand it? Why the heart curled into fist of dread?" asks author Terry Wolverton in this collection of 49 lyric essays, illustrated with original photographs by Yvonne M. Estrada. WOUNDED WORLD: LYRIC ESSAYS ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL DISQUIET that explores how what we think of as our social problems are really spiritual problems and poses prayers, practices and perspectives to begin to remedy them.

Terry Wolverton, 2017

“Terry Wolverton’s Ruin Porn is a poetic sequence, gritty and otherworldly at the same time, an autobiography not written in narrative but music, the deep music of lyric poetry. It is quite a ride. …” — Richard Garcia

Terry Wolverton, 2007

Placing her hands on the “braille of the future,” Terry Wolverton yet again distinguishes herself in a new genre, this time in the prose poem. Shadow and Praise unfolds like a “bittersweet beat” in an end-line-word to first-line-word chain of beautiful and surprising poems. … Shadow and Praise works bodily, in one motion, and like the pulse…” — Elena Karina Byrne

Terry Wolverton, 1992

“The strange fruit of love blooms and ripens and falls in Terry Wolverton’s haunting poems. By turns melancholy and hilarious, an exquisite mix of tensile strength, blunt talk, and whiplash metaphors, the poems in Black Slip never falter as they chart their way through the undersea of the heart. …” — Paul Monette