About Teresa

Teresa R. Funke is the author of Remember Wake, an award-winning novel based on a true story from WWII. She is also the author of Dancing in Combat Boots: Stories of American Women in WWII and Doing My Part, the first book in the Home-Front Heroes series for middle grade readers.
    Teresa has worked as a researcher for PBS and several museums and written dozens of articles. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous commercial and literary magazines and anthologies including Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, 2003 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, Tampa Review, In Posse Review's Ethnic Anthology on Web del Sol, Under the Sun, U.S. Catholic, Adoption Today and several others. Two of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays of 2002 and 2004 by the prestigious Best American Essays series.
    A popular speaker, presenter and writer's coach, Teresa is also the host of the writers' videos The Write Series. Her anticipated six-part workshop, That Book Inside You: How to Write It, Publish It, Sell It launches in Fall, 2007.

Other Works

The Sand Papers:
Selected Writings from the Slow Sand Writers Society

The Slow Sand Writers Society is a group in Fort Collins, Colorado, that has been meeting every other Tuesday night for a decade. Teresa and the rest of the Sanders gather to report progress, share successes, commiserate failures and, fondly yet honestly, critique each other's work.
    This tenth-anniversary collection is a sampler of the hundreds of essays, short stories and book excerpts the Sanders have helped one another hone. The voices herein—poignant, wry, subtle, edgy—are as unique as their authors, yet all have been tuned in the process of coming together week after week, year after year.
    Ten writers. Ten years. Ten stories. Enjoy.
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The Write Series:
A Video Series for Writers

Forest Rose Productions, L.L.C., is delighted to produce THE WRITE SERIES in association with The Pikes Peak Writers Conference. The first volume, "Getting There from Here: Getting Published" is an exciting introduction for the series. It presents valuable information in an entertaining way, for all writers at any level.
    Teresa narrates the series in a friendly, helpful and learned style. This program runs approximately 40 minutes and features a number of publishing professionals who share suggestions and secrets about how to get published.
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Additional Literary Publications

Forthcoming: "Freer Than I've Ever Been," Calyx, short story
Forthcoming: "Three Thousand Men," The MacGuffin, short story
Forthcoming: "Living on the Wind," Kalliope, short story

2006: "Where She Began," High Plains Register, short story
2006: "Las Estrellas de Oro," The Copperfield Review, short story reprint
2006: "Books in My Backyard," ByLine Magazine, end piece

2005: "I Am Not Special," Adoption Today, creative nonfiction
2005: "Las Estrellas de Oro," U.S. Catholic, short story
2005: "Una Hija Americana," listed as Notable Essay of 2004 by Best American Essays

2004: "Una Hija Americana," Crab Orchard Review, creative nonfiction
2004: "It's Not Too Late, Connor," ByLine Magazine, essay

2003: "Liberated Hair," listed as a Notable Essay of 2002 by Best American Essays series
2003: "Just The Way He Liked It," 2003 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, short story
2003: "I Am Not Special," Under the Sun, creative nonfiction
2003: "The Summer of '79," The North Dakota Quarterly, creative nonfiction

2002: "Liberated Hair," Tampa Review, creative nonfiction
2002: "When Mother's Play," The Denver Post, essay

2001: "The Value of Money," In Posse Review's Ethnic Anthology on Web del Sol, short story
2001: "What He Might Have Been," Carve Magazine, short story
2001: "The Hours of Magic," A Mom's Love, essay

2000: "Why Korea?" Adoption Today, essay

1999: "Baby Steps and Novel Strides," ByLine Magazine, essay, reprinted in Authorship

1994: "Poems That Die in the Moonlight," Genre Sampler Magazine, short story


Commercial Writing Experience 1991-2000:

Over 80 articles published in regional and national magazines and newspapers, including The Rocky Mountain News, Northwest Parks and Wildlife, Colorado Country Life and several others. She has done research and/or written brochures for PBS and several museums.