Theresa Whitehill, born in Sacramento in 1957, studied at UC Santa Cruz and Mills College in the 1970s and early 80s. Since 1984 she has lived in Mendocino County, where she is well-known to local poetry audiences. In 1998 she served as Poet-in-Residence at Stags’ Leap Winery for a project that resulted in the exhibit and catalog Napa Valley: Portrait of a Community. She has been published by Alice Waters and the American Film Institute, along with northern California literary journals. Whitehill currently serves as the city of Ukiah’s Poet Laureate. In November of 2009, Pygmy Forest Press published a collection of her poems, A Grammar of Longing. Her literary letterpress broadsides, many produced with her husband, artist Paulo Ferreira, are in major national collections, including the Getty Center for the Arts, Brown University’s John Hay Library, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

A Grammar of Longing (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009), How To Make a Living As a Poet (Soft Skull Press, 2005), Saudades (Stags Leap Winery, 2003), Napa Valley: Portrait of a Community (Stags Leap Winery, 1998), A Natural History of Mill Towns (Pygmy Forest Press, 1993)

Small Mirrors: Mendocino Literary Festival 2007 (Mendocino College, 2007), Human kind: poems by susa members (Emmanuel Williams, 2006), Wood, Water, Air and Fire: The Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets (Pot Shard Press, 1998)

Arabesques Review, Art/Life Limited Editions, Calyx, Montserrat Review, Oxygen, Rattlesnake Review, Redwood Coast Review, Semi-Dwarf Review, Steelhead Special, Upriver Downriver, Water, Yellow Silk