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Teresa Knudsen has been writing ever since she can remember. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University, with course work in non-fiction, fiction, poetry, playwriting, literature, art, dance, and English as a Second Language.
She also earned a Master of Initial Teaching degree from Gonzaga University. Here she studied educational theory, research, and practice, with emphasis in educational statistics and research.
Her master's thesis, enhancing ESL students' metacognition through portfolio assessment, was accepted for presentation at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, and she has done additional research, studying community college writing students' understanding of metacogntion through portfolio assessment, also accepted by the AERA for presentation in New Orleans.
Teresa has presented at TESOL, as well as attending a conference in Computer Learner Corpora in Hong Kong. She has been sponsored by educational institutions so that she has attended presentations by Dr. Howard Gardner to study Multiple Intelligences, Dr. Stephen Krashen to study his reading methods for ESL students, and Dr. Anna Uhl-Chamot to study her work in metacognition.
In addition, Teresa wrote a book, published by the late Glen Adams of Ye Galleon Press, about the Yakama warrior Qualchan. Written under the name T. G. Boyden, Warrior of the Mist describes the history of Washington Territory, and then focuses on the 1855 to 1858 wars against the tribes of Washington Territory. Without any promotion, many libraries in the country purchased the book, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of California at Berkeley.
After researching the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Teresa began a screenplay in 2000 and completed it in 2005, with the title Black Cross at the Comet.. She is presently completing the novel version of the screenplay. She has also written articles on child labor laws, Susan Sarandon, Hezbollah, and Harriet Tubman.
Teresa has presented three times at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Her focus has been methods of presenting controversial material in college and university English composition classes, including the Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll, Ruby Ridge and other works by Jess Walter. She also includes the Patriot Act I and II. She often encompasses the topics of pirates and patriots, and liberty against the law. For this, she analyzes films such as the Lion in Winter with Katherine Hepburn, Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine and Arturo de Cordova, Captain Blood with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and the Priates of the Caribbean movies with Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom, and Geoffrey Rush.
Other interests are the artists of the Brandywine School, Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania, especially N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew, and grandson James. Teresa also is fascinated by the relationship of the Age of Reason and the American Revolution, the subsequent development of the Romantic and Gothic, and the intertwining of the Reason and Passion in the works of Jane Austen. When she isn't writing, Teresa is active in dance, drama, politics, and enjoying the beautiful nature of our planet. She enjoys spending time with her family on their 21 acres on land in Eastern Washington, watching the wildlife of coyotes, elk, moose, hawks, badgers; trying to keep chickens, and living in a 1910 log cabin. She wants to remind anyone who would like to live in a log cabin, to wish for a big log cabin.