Teresa McWhirter grew up in Kimberley, in the east Kootenays of interior BC. After finishing high school she spent a year in Europe and returned to attend the University of Victoria, where she received a BA with a double major in English and Creative Writing (with Distinction). She then taught English in Korea, spent time in Thailand and Costa Rica, and traveled extensively throughout Canada and the US. Her first novel, Some Girls Do was published by Raincoast books (Vancouver: 2002)

After an assortment of jobs including driving an ice cream truck and as a monster in the haunted house of an amusement park, she published her second novel, Dirtbags (Anvil Press, Vancouver: 2007)

During the past few years Teresa has toured Europe and North America with punk rock bands, gathering material for her recently completed third novel, Five Little Bitches.

She lives on Vancouver’s east side.