Therese Walsh
An archive of Therese’s posts can be found HERE.
Editorial director Therese Walsh co-founded Writer Unboxed with Kathleen Bolton in 2006.
Therese pens delayed coming-of-age novels (The Moon Sisters; Last Will of Moira Leahy). Her stories, dark and whimsical, feature protagonists who struggle to move beyond past tragedies in order to secure more hopeful futures.
Therese was the architect and first editor of Author in Progress (Writer’s Digest, 2016)–a book about the milestones a writer hits when writing a novel with tips on how to reach those milestones while clearing psychological hurdles along the way. The book features fresh essays by ~50 Writer Unboxed contributors and industry pros.
Every 2-4 years, Therese organizes a new Writer Unboxed UnConference. Part UN-traditional conference, part intensive craft event, part networking affair, this in-person event has enjoyed wonderful support from the writing community.
Therese founded the women’s fiction chapter of RWA in 2008 and was an early advisor for Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA).
She was a researcher and writer for Prevention magazine before she became a freelancer. She’s had hundreds of articles on nutrition and fitness published in consumer magazines and online.
Her favorite things include photography, birding, the analysis of unique storytelling, and daydreaming. She has a master’s degree in psychology.