Terra Oliveira is a Philadelphia-based writer, the founder and editor of Recenter Press, and an organizer with the Philadelphia Liberation Center. They are the author of poetry and visual art books And Still To Sleep, An Old Blue Light, and Processes: A Meditation, and their work has been published in Protean Magazine, Prolit Magazine, Peace, Land, and Bread Magazine, Hooligan Magazine, and more. In April 2016, Oliveira participated in the Hope Villa Artist Residency in the Western Ghats of India, and they were the Artist-In-Residence at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at The Great Wall of China in March of 2017, working primarily with visual poetry and found, repurposed materials. Born and raised in the Bay Area, they received their B.A. in documentary film production from San Francisco State University in May 2014, where their work received the Student Film Award at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (CAAMFest) in Spring 2014.
Terra's work history includes outdoor education and camp counseling, after school program facilitation at the Free Library of Philadelphia, video and podcast production, organizational administration, farming, and a handful of jobs in the service industry. In addition, they have extensive volunteer experience as a community organizer, nonviolent communication facilitator, gardener, and numerous stays and live / work exchanges at monasteries, meditation centers, ashrams, eco-villages, farms, and intentional communities in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, China, India, and Nepal. As a dedicated student and practitioner of a number of creative, spiritual, and revolutionary disciplines, these immersive retreats combined with study and political practice are in direct relationship with Oliveira’s work.
Terra's work history includes outdoor education and camp counseling, after school program facilitation at the Free Library of Philadelphia, video and podcast production, organizational administration, farming, and a handful of jobs in the service industry. In addition, they have extensive volunteer experience as a community organizer, nonviolent communication facilitator, gardener, and numerous stays and live / work exchanges at monasteries, meditation centers, ashrams, eco-villages, farms, and intentional communities in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, China, India, and Nepal. As a dedicated student and practitioner of a number of creative, spiritual, and revolutionary disciplines, these immersive retreats combined with study and political practice are in direct relationship with Oliveira’s work.
