Teresa Funke

Teresa Funke

Teresa R. Funke is the author of Remember Wake, an award-winning novel based on a true story from WWII. She is also the author of Dancing in Combat Boots: Stories of American Women in WWII and Doing My Part, the first book in the Home-Front Heroes series for middle grade readers. The second book in the Home-Front Heroes collection, The No-No Boys, is set in a Japanese internment camp. the third, V for Victory, was released in the fall of 2009.

Teresa has worked as a researcher for PBS and several museums and written dozens of articles. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous commercial and literary magazines and anthologies including Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, 2003 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, Tampa Review, In Posse Review’s Ethnic Anthology on Web del Sol, Under the Sun, U.S. Catholic, Adoption Today and several others. Two of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays of 2002 and 2004 by the prestigious Best American Essays series.

A popular speaker, presenter and writer’s coach, Teresa is also the host of the writers’ videos The Write Series. She is also the presenter of her popular six-part workshop That Book Inside You: How to Write It, Publish It, Sell It.

To find out more about Teresa’s books, visit Teresa Funke & Co.