Terris McMahan Grimes
Terris McMahan Grimes is a 2-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Terris McMahan Grimes is an award winning author.
Somebody Else’s Child, the first book in her Theresa Galloway mystery
series, won an unprecedented double Anthony Awards for best first novel and
best paperback original. She has also the won the Chester Himes Black
Mystery Writers Award. Grimes’ work tends to focus on the African American
family, particularly mother/daughter relationships. In Smelling Herself she
examines the use of corporal punishment in African American families, and
girl empowerment.
Grimes grew up in West Oakland, where Smelling Herself is set. She walked
the same streets to and from Thompkins Elementary School that Bernadine, the
hero of Smelling Herself, walked. She has fond memories of growing up in the
Chestnut Court Apartment Complex and graduating from McClymonds High School.
Grimes earned a BA Degree in English from California State University, Chico
and she is an alumna of the Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing Program at
Antioch University, Los Angeles. She writes from her home studio in
Sacramento, California.
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