Theresa Crater did her undergraduate work in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the school where you can throw a rock and it will hit at least two writers.  Then, Theresa studied Vedic philosophy and taught meditation until she ran out of money. Deciding she did not want to be a secretary for the rest of her life, she returned to graduate school and received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, in beautiful, rainy Seattle.

Theresa's first teaching job was in the Writing Center at the Evergreen State College, the alternative school that had the distinction of being slated for closure by right-wing state senators every four years until it gained aninternational reputation.  Theresa went on to teach humanities and writing at South Puget Sound Community College.  Seeking the sun, she moved to Colorado and has been at Metropolitan State College of Denver since 1992.  Theresa has written one novel, God in a Box, about her experiences in the meditation movements of the 1970s, and is working on a second, Key to the Halls, an Egyptian mystery.  She has edited a composition reader, Outside the Box, looking at paradigm shifts in various disciplines, due out from Longman in 2003.  Her scholarly writings have focused mainly on Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and The X-Files.