Terry Farish

Terry Farish is the author of Either the Beginning or the End of the World, winner of the Maine Literary Award for young adult literature and a Boston Author’s Club finalist award. Her novel in verse The Good Braider is set in South Sudan and Portland, Maine. It was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the Lupine Award from the Maine Library Association.

Farish wrote the picture book A Feast for Joseph in collaboration with South Sudanese musician and writer, OD Bonny, and illustrator Ken Daley, coming from Groundwood Books in 2021. She’s also the author of The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup, illustrated by Barry Root, which was a Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books Blue Ribbon Winner. Farish has worked with Bhutanese-Nepali refugees to create a bilingual Nepali-English folktale, The Story of a Pumpkin, published by New Hampshire Humanities. She’s currently collaborating with Bhutanese-Nepali colleagues on a new project. She was honored to be in on the visionary stage of Kirsten Cappy’s I'm Your Neighbor Books to “build welcoming communities for New Arrivals and New Americans using children’s literature.” 

Farish lives in Kittery, Maine.