Terry S. Johnson has explored careers as a newspaper advertising clerk, a library assistant and a professional harpsichordist before serving as a public school teacher for over twenty-five years. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has published in many anthologies and journals. Her first book entitled Coalescence was published in 2014 and won an honorable mention award in the New England Book Festival. Her second Plunge arrived in 2019.