Terah Shelton Harris

Terah Shelton Harris is an author, librarian, and former freelance writer who now writes upmarket Southern fiction with bittersweet endings. Her debut novel, One Summer in Savannah, was a Target Book Club Pick, and tells the story of a young poet who returns home after eight years away to run her father’s bookstore and finds she must protect her gifted daughter—and herself—from the powerful family of the man who raped her. This is made even more difficult when she falls in love with the last person she expects—his twin brother, Jacob. Her second book, Long After We Are Gone, will be published in May 2024 and is an explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who return home in the wake of their father's death in order to save their family's home from being sold out from under them.

Originally from Illinois, she now lives in Alabama with her husband, Jamel. Terah is a lover of life and spends most of her time reading, traveling the world, and taking travel photos. She has visited over 40 countries across six continents and is always looking for her next adventure.