In 2006 she released to the public her first novel in the 'Dragon Shaman' series, 'Taming the Blowing Wind,' and has since published a second book in the series and a poetry book. In 2005, she decided to pick up the dream of writing and publishing a novel once more, having shelved that (and the 'Shadow Chronicles' manuscript) in her early college years due to the time constraints of motherhood at the time. Her parents always encouraged her writing and artistic talents.

She was raised in another mountain community, which she visits as often as she can spare time and gas, though not nearly often enough for her wishes. As Amehana, Teresa volunteers time for the Trotsdale Public Library in Second Life. She also writes quests for, and helps to maintain, the online browser-based RPG Dragon Hearts. She loves to text role play, write stories, hike, paint, meditate, and play games or read with her kids. Just because she is on her own though, does not mean that she is 'alone.' Many thanks are due to the McCloud Community Resource Center, to her brother and his family, and her mother, for all their help. Teresa Garcia (once Teresa Huddleston-Garcia) is a 30-something mother of two children with special needs, raising them 'alone' in the small mountain town of McCloud, CA. She has written poetry nearly all her life, and draws upon her love of nature and the intricate webs of life for inspiration. Teresa Huddleston-Garcia is a mother of two living at the foot of the sacred Mount Shasta in Northern California. Although the poems and songs speak for themselves, brief explanations of culture have been included, with a list of resources for further reading in the back. The poetry herein is the product of a Western Woman who has been heavily influenced by the East, and particularly by her researches into Shinto spirituality and Japanese folklore. The flower of a poem opens her petals to the sun, amidst a garden of other poems. The Kami ever call for their Miko, and they are both within us all. The worlds of the visible and invisible mesh, and sometimes the unseen is glimpsed between the red posts of the torii on a walk in the woods, or at home. The world is a fine tapestry, ever worked and ever evolving upon the loom of spirit.

Call of the Kami by Teresa Garcia