S. J. Terra

Sandra J. Terra is a mom of five young adults, has been a wife for thirty years to the same mechanic, and is a lifelong follower of Christ. She ran track and field, shot air defence artillery, mended as a military medic, raised at least another fifty children through her daycare and V.B.S. leadership, and trained with the R.C.M.P.. Her service dogs have learned to navigate the Canadian healthcare system, mostly. She took up her laptop to write stories for her youngest reader that reflected the values and stories of her own faith and culture.   

Her Opa (Dutch Grandfather) wrote books, newsletters, corrospondance and articles throughout his life on a very large typewriter despite being blind for the last thirty years of his life. Sandra wrote stories every since a crayon would stay in her fingers. She won awards for her Remembrance Day poems and started a novel in junior high. More recently she had an essay published in ‘Disability Ways’, an anthology distributed through Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM). In the years between she wrote and told stories to children, shared anecdotes with friends and family, published newsletters for church and kept journals around special moments in her life. Through it she sees an unbreakable thread of both Hope and Humour. Sharing her faith is a calling she feels deeply and does it with a smile on her face.