Meet teri

Teri Dunbar is a writer, wife, mother and dog lover from Indianapolis, Indiana.  Indiana has been her home since 1971.  She was born to a Baptist pastor and stay at home mom, who out of necessity became a businesswoman and philanthropist. She credits her daddy with teaching her to know what she believes and why, and her mother with the chutzpah to say it out loud.

She graduated from Taylor University where she majored in Psychology and met her husband, to whom she has been married for thirty-three years. They have two adult children, a beautiful daughter-in-law, three poodles and one goldendoodle who bring her joy and plenty of “oh my” moments. While Teri has explored varied occupations and entrepreneurial adventures, running their household and keeping everyone “in-line” has been her full-time job since 1991.

Teri has always gravitated toward work that involved storytelling. She has worked in the theatre as an actress, artistic director, and educator. She deeply values the community that develops through shared, embodied storytelling and has cherished the opportunities she has had to work in local community theatres and schools. While these opportunities have created the necessity for writing short stories, narrations, monologues, and scripts, the call to write full time came in 2006. Like a nudge she couldn’t ignore Teri began to put down on paper the story you hold in your hands today.  Her father became her editor-in-chief, encouraging her, challenging her and spurring her on.

In July of 2012, when her father died, she laid her writing aside. “For ten years I put myself in the grave with my dad. God used the time to heal broken places and take me to a deeper level of surrender and understanding of Christ as my life.” It has taken all these years to allow the healing of the Spirit and the love, grace and patience of her family to make the completion of this book possible and she is forever grateful.