Education

Terri Farley is the best-selling author of books about the contemporary and historic West.

Her Phantom Stallion series for young readers and Seven Tears into the Sea have sold over two million copies worldwide.

The Phantom Stallion and Wild Horse Island series launched as audiobooks in January 2021 with Oasis Audio Books.

Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them, non-fiction published by Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt, is a Junior Library Guild selection and has been honored by the National Science Teachers Association, Western Writers of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and more. It was listed on the Children’s Book Council’s Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12.

Recently, Farley joined Mark Twain, Ellen Hopkins and other authors she admires in the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Before she began writing full-time, Farley taught middle school and high school language arts and journalism in inner-city Los Angeles, California and Reno, Nevada. She has a Master’s degree in journalism, is an advocate for the West’s wildlife and wild places and works with young people learning to make their voices heard.