Terese Brasen
Telling my story.
The Breakup
A funny and frightening tale set in the late ’60s and early ’70s when capitalism was booming, women didn’t need to work and teenagers were dropping acid.
Forthcoming
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our Creative Non-Fiction Contest along with Ivan Coyote’s judge’s essay.
“The Thing That’s Wrong With Me is another family story (a genre which I freely admit I am consistently drawn to and deeply moved by) about grandparents, disease, mental illness and all that we inherit in our veins. To say much more about this piece would be to give away the clue to the mystery, so I won’t do that, but there are bits of this story that I will keep like a treasure in a wooden box in my desk.”
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For the Love of Words is a fun, easy-to-read introduction to grammar.
Writers, journalists, and communicators learn how to identify parts of speech and create interesting, readable sentences. The textbook uses metaphor and story to teach students to master the twists and turns of composition. With the explosion of AI-generated content, professional writers need deep language skills that keep words clear and meaningful.
Published by Kendall Hunt.
KAMA is a young woman living in a Viking setttlement midway between Constantinope and southern Denmark.
“KAMA is a marvel of storytelling, mixing impressive erudition with compelling action. In Terese Brasen’s distant mirror, a gritty, unflinching view of tenth century Europe casts a haunting reflection on violence against women in our 21st century. Kama’s turbulent quest is a timeless tale of enslavement and empowerment.” – Jake Lamar, author of Bourgeois Blues and Rendezvous Eighteenth
“In KAMA, Terese Brasen resurrects and reimagines a kind of Viking ballad from the fierce perspective of its women: queens, slaves, angels of death and instruments of destruction. This book is tightly-made, full of violent narrative magic and indelible historical detail. The end result feels heroic, and new.” – Ashley Warlick, author of The Arrangement and Seek the Living
Published by Outpost19, San Francisco