Theresa
J. McGarry
My mother told me that even as a very young child I was always watching and listening to people's conversations (and, no doubt, making some of them understandably nervous -- little did they know that I was gleaning information for future characters). By the age of six, I was making up little stories using ice cream sticks, pipe cleaners (which were colorful and so wasn't that fun?) and even note paper (not as flexible so a last resort medium). When I was eleven, already re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, my mother said to me in a moment forever etched upon my memory: "Theresa, you have quite an imagination. Why don't you write your stories down?" And that was it. Once I began writing, I knew that was what I was meant to do. I never had any doubts. I wrote my first science-fiction novel when I was fourteen. It was terrible and, I am thankful to say, has disintegrated due to a flood. Its importance lay in the process, not in the quality of the writing. I have expanded my interests and my creative avenues to include many things, including performance poetry, mysteries, romantic suspense and dark fantasy, but science-fiction was my first love and remains an enduring passion. I would write it anyway, that I'm allowed to share it with others is a delicious, glimmering shine that promises the rise of stars not yet named but are savored nonetheless.
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Winner of
2007 Pendy for Best Writing in a Pendant Production |
Theresa is the voice of Pallas in "Wonder Woman: Champion of Themyscira", Alura In-Ze in "Superman: The Last Son of Krypton", Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ry Emeras in "Star Trek: Defiant", which she also writes beginning with episode 10, and is co-creator and co-writer of "The Kingery".