Teri has loved stories, and fantasy in particular, since she was 3 years old laying on top of her fathers’ recliner while he read The Hobbit to her. Reading out loud became a regular occurrence for Teri, and she honed her skills by imitating other narrators of the audiobooks she listened to constantly.

Becoming a Park Ranger for the National Park Service gave her the chance to tell stories about history to a wide variety of audiences. With the start of the pandemic, more digital opportunities became available, and she found an online course on voice acting. With the knowledge gained from those classes, she finally entered the world of professional audiobook narration, something she had dreamed about doing since she was young.

Teri’s love of stories doesn’t stop at narration. With a vivid imagination, she wrote several simple stories as a child, often with a magical element to them. When she was a teenager, one story became a game with a friend, bouncing ideas off each other. It was a fun exercise of creativity, but though both of them talked about eventual publication, neither of them really thought it would ever happen. But long after the game ended, the seeds of the story remained, fueling further creativity.

As the daughter of a singer/songwriter and a librarian, Teri hopes to carry on the family legacy of storytelling. For her, stories are the backbone of society whether they be the stories of history or the stories created in peoples’ imaginations. They are all important and she intends to keep telling them.