About Teri Case

Creative Mission

Write novels that inspire people to hope, change, or learn.
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.
Always create something new.
Generously support my fellow authors and artists in the creative trenches.

The Short Story

Teri Case is the award-winning author of Tiger Drive and In the Doghouse: A Couple’s Breakup from Their Dog’s Point of View. Her alcoholic father, bipolar mother, and nine siblings taught her to watch and learn from others and that laughter can lighten any load (at least for a few seconds). She often travels—watching, learning, and writing about people who want to matter. Her third novel, Finding Imogene, is coming soon.

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.

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 second novel, In the Doghouse: A Couple’s Breakup from Their Dog’s Point of View (2019), is also an award-winning book. Her alcoholic father, bipolar mother, and nine siblings taught her to watch and learn from others and that laughter can lighten any load (at least for a few seconds).

She often travels with her partner—watching, learning, and writing about people who want to matter. She now lives outside of Washington, D.C.

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. 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.

Finding Imogene is her third novel and is pending publication. She is represented by Andrea Hurst Literary Agency.

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.

A Letter from Teri

Hello Friend,

I’m Teri Case, and I offer stories about people who want to know why and how they matter.

In fiction, I write about imperfect people, navigating their way through life, searching for purpose and happiness, and learning from their mistakes as they go. I explore the relationships between partners and families with storylines that provide an honest look at the effects of family secrets, shame, mental illness, and vulnerability across generations. But life can be deeply ironic and darkly funny, so I incorporate humor into each of my novels. Laughter through tears is one of my favorite emotions.

I like realistic, happy endings. Just as I like to read a book that shakes me to the core, I strive to write a story that will shake someone else. The kind of ‘shaking’ where you finish reading the story with a sense of possibility and feel better for having read the book.

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Maybe you’ll relate to some of the stories and, like me think, Oh, I thought I was the only one who felt that way, or Funny, that’s happened to me too. Some stories might make you laugh and roll your eyes. Maybe you will have a new or less lonely view of your world and know that you matter.

I’m so grateful you are here, and we can share this whacky adventure we call life.

Thank you for being you.

Teri

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