Terry Row

TERRY ROW is the award-winning author of Summer Capricorn (2006), Untarnished Reputation (2009), which received an Honorable Mention in the Genre Category at the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival and took the top prize in the Western Category at the National Indie Excellence Awards of 2010, and Phyllis Marie (2011), which won an NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the Category of Fiction, Spring of 2011. His newest book, Three Movements for Six Hands, an historical novel about the composers and pianists Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann received an Honorable Mention in Fiction at the 2015 Paris Book Festival, an Honorable Mention at the 2015 New York Book Festival, as well as an Honorable Mention in Fiction at the 2015 Hollywood Book Festival.

In addition to his work as a novelist, Terry Row teaches writing and edits manuscripts for other novelists. He lives in northern Santa Barbara County with his wife, ceramics artist Ramona Clayton and manages retail sales for her pottery business, terramonary porcelain dinnerware. He remains a lifelong avocationist, pursuing independent studies in writing, literature, poetry, music, history, cinema, photography, eclipse-chasing, astronomy, gardening, chess and bird watching.