Terra Oliveira is a Philadelphia-based writer, the founder / editor of Recenter Press, and a youth programming facilitator at The Free Library of Philadelphia and in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts. They are the author of And Still To Sleep, An Old Blue Light, and Processes: A Meditation, and were the Artist-In-Residence at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at The Great Wall of China in March of 2017. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, they are of Portuguese, Polynesian, Chinese, Danish, and Russian-Jewish descent, among others. Oliveira is a dedicated student and practitioner of Buddhist, Christian, and revolutionary teachings, and devotes themselves to being in a deeply loving cohabitative partnership, ​co-facilitating nonviolent communication workshops, attending free groups and conferences for political education, recovering from the impact of personal and familial addiction, seeking principled channels for revolutionary organizing, and connecting with nature.