Creative Mission
- Write novels that inspire readers to reach, learn, and grow beyond their familiar environment.
- Craft stories that include life’s ironies, dark humor, and human foibles while looking honestly at the effects of family secrets, shame, mental illness, and vulnerability across generations.
- Donate to a charity or cause with every book I write.
- Generously support my fellow authors and artists in the creative trenches.
The Short Story
Teri Case is the award-winning author of Tiger Drive, In the Doghouse: A Couple’s Breakup from Their Dog’s Point of View, and Finding Imogene. Her nine siblings have taught her to watch and learn from others and that laughter can lighten any load (at least for a few seconds). She loves to travel and hike. Her favorite season includes snow and pumpkin spice.
The Long Story
Teri Case is the award-winning author of Tiger Drive. Kirkus Reviews shared Tiger Drive (2018) in their “Up All Night Issue.” Her other novels, In the Doghouse: A Couple’s Breakup from Their Dog’s Point of View (2019), and Finding Imogene (2024) are also an award-winning books.
Tiger Drive is Teri’s debut novel. It has won Gold in Best Drama Fiction at the Readers’ Favorite Awards, the Gold Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, Best New Fiction in the 2018 American Fiction Awards, and is a Kirkus Reviews “Recommended Author.” In the Doghouse: A Couple’s Breakup from Their Dog’s Point of View is her second novel and has won the National Indie Excellence Award and the Gold for Animal Fiction at the Readers’ Favorite Awards. Finding Imogene has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award. She also authors two children’s picture books, one of which, I’m Going to the Doctor?!, was shared on TODAY by Kathie Lee Gifford as her Favorite Thing.
Teri runs the Tiger Drive Scholarship for students who want to reach, learn, and grow beyond their familiar environment by attending college or a trade school.
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