About Terri

Terri Connellan lives and writes in Sydney surrounded by beach and bush. She works in creative bursts between the spaces of a full-time leadership role in the adult vocational education sector.  With qualifications in language and literature, teaching and adult education, she has a passionate interest in all aspects of reading and writing including: the reading and writing process,  adult literacy teaching, poetry writing, journal writing, literature and reading and writing as personal growth. She also has a keen interest in family history and historical fiction.

Terri’s poetry has been published in Australia in Muse and Mattoid and has been featured in Sage Cohen’s ‘Poetry for the People’ student poems on the net. She has been an avid student in Sage’s Poetry for the People in 2009-10 and in Susannah Conway’s Unravelling e-courses in 2010-11 and currently ‘Blogging from the Heart’ in 2012.

‘Transcending‘ is about different ways of rising above, cutting through, strategising and connecting and provides an opportunity to muse and reflect on Terri’s core values of creativity, resilience and strength, and the interplay between them.  She gains great heart from reading about the journeys of those who seek and enjoy things like creativity, authenticity and a writing life, and especially hopes to celebrate the lyricism of this in her own journey and in connecting with others on similar journeys.