Terez Mertes Rose

Terez Mertes Rose is a writer and former ballet dancer whose work has appeared in the Crab Orchard Review, Women Who Eat (Seal Press), A Woman’s Europe (Travelers’ Tales), the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Jose Mercury News. She reviews dance performances for Bachtrack.com and blogs about ballet and classical music at The Classical Girl (www.theclassicalgirl.com). Her second novel, OUTSIDE THE LIMELIGHT (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, Book 2), was named a Best Book of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. Her third novel, A DANCER'S GUIDE TO AFRICA, was released in late 2018. She makes her home in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband and son, where she is at work on Book 3 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles.