Terri Witek is the author of several books including The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner and Courting Couples (winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest). In 2000, she received the McInery Award for Teaching, and in 2008, she received the John Hague Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the liberal arts and sciences. A native of northern Ohio, she teaches English at Stetson University, where she holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing.