A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Teri illustrated more than a dozen children’s books, both trade and educational. She worked in watercolor, colored pencil, and a little of whatever else happened to be on her desk at the time … cat fur included. Teri passed away in 2019. She lived in lovely Portsmouth, New Hampshire with her husband writer Chris Dahlen, their son Nicholas, Mr. Budd the cat, and several fish, all of whom served as models for her work at one point or another.