Teri Degler

An award winning writer, Teri is the author/co-author of ten non-fiction books, including The Fiery Muse Creativity and the Spiritual Quest (Random House of Canada) and one for young adults, The Canadian Junior Green Guide (McClelland & Stewart). Done in conjunction with the highly respected environmental watchdog, Pollution Probe, it became a Canadian best-seller.

After completing two books on the environment, Teri began to focus much of her writing on topics related to creativity and contemporary spirituality, subjects with deep personal interest for her. Teri first began studying yoga in her twenties in Paris with a teacher who had lived in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram for more than twenty years. Several years later she traveled to Indian to meet Gopi Krishna. Since then she has been a student of the philosophy behind yoga and has been involved in researching the link between creativity, inspiration, and mystical experience. Both her latest book, The Divine Feminine Fire: Creativity and Your Yearning to Express Your Self (Dreamriver Press), and The Fiery Muse deal with this topic.

An experienced public speaker, Teri has made many national television and radio appearances. Her freelance writing has appeared in such widely divergent publications in the United States as Family Circle and New Age Journal. In Canada, she has written for More Magazine, Today's Parent, The Toronto Star, The United Church Observer, and many other publications. Her work has been published in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and Italy.

The workshops Teri leads on creative writing and the link between creativity and the spirituality have met with great success, and she now divides her time between leading workshops and writing.

An avid traveler, Teri has lived in Austria, Germany, and France as well as on a sailboat in the Bahamas. Originally from Idaho, she now makes her home in Toronto with her husband and teenage daughter. Teri is an enthusiastic swimmer and competes with a Master's synchronized swimming team. An active member of PEN Camada and The Writers' Union of Canada, she sits on the union's Freedom of Expression Committee. She is a member of Institute for Consciousness Research and was one of the founders of the Kundalini Research Network in the United States. Teri Degler received her Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico.

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