Terri was born in Plymouth, Devon, but during her childhood her family moved to the moorland village of North Hill in Cornwall. There, at the age of 9, Terri discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since.

She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one’s ever offered to pay her for doing those.

As R.D. Nixon, she has written a 3-book crime thriller series, featuring PI team Maddy Clifford and Paul Mackenzie, and a cast of recurring characters along with the new ones for each new story.

She also writes family sagas with crime and espionage themes for Piatkus (Little, Brown)

Terri is a hybrid author; also self-publishing a series of mythic fantasy novels: The Lynher Mill Chronicles.

She also writes under the name T Nixon, and has contributed to anthologies under the names Terri Pine and Teresa Nixon. She works in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Business at Plymouth University… where she is constantly baffled by the number of students who don’t possess pens