Genres: Historical Fiction

Terri Lewis fell in love with history in college. Not the dates or wars, but the mysterious daily lives of people. Her debut, Behold the Bird in Flight, tells the story of an unknown British queen and is available through Amazon and Simon and Schuster. Her second book tells of her grandfather’s return from WWI with shellshock and her grandmother’s struggle to hold the family together. When They Came Home, coming May ’26, won the 2025 Miami University Press Novella Prize.

She reviews for The Washington Independent Review of Books and has published in Embark, Hippocampus, Denver Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others.