Beatriz Terrazas

Beatriz Terrazas is a writer, photographer and producer based in North Texas. She is a contributor to The Texas Observer, The Progressive Media Project and The Dallas Morning News. Her work has also appeared in More, D, Skirt! and The Washington Post, and she is among the writers anthologized in TCU Press’s Literary El Paso.

She was part of The Dallas Morning News team to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for a series titled Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights, and has won first place in the American Society of Sunday and Features Editors and the Gold in the Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Awards.

Her essay My Mother’s Brain, a story about caring for her Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother, won first place in the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) in 2011. She is a member of ASJA and of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Writer’s Workshop, and a Harvard University Nieman Fellow, class of 1999. She blogs about caring for her mother at www.mymothersbrain.wordpress.com.

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