About Terry Leatherwood

Over the past 25 years, Terry has served on various church staffs, giving him a close view of the joys, struggles, questions, and realities of the Christian life. Through ministry, he has seen firsthand the challenges people face as they try to live with conviction in a complicated world. Those experiences have given him insight into both the beauty and the difficulty of genuine faith — insight that now deeply informs his writing.

In addition to his ministry background, Terry is also an amateur musician. His love for music reflects another side of his creative life and contributes to the thoughtfulness and emotional depth found in his work. Like music, his writing aims to move beyond surface impressions and connect with something deeper in the heart.

Terry’s personal journey has also profoundly shaped the message behind his writing. As a liver transplant recipient, he has experienced the fragility of life in a deeply personal way. That experience has given him an even greater awareness of grace, perseverance, and the value of every day we are given. It has also strengthened his desire to write with purpose and eternal perspective.

These life experiences — in technology, ministry, music, and personal hardship — come together in powerful ways in Terry’s work. He writes about subjects few people are willing to explore, blending truth, faith, struggle, and hope into stories and reflections that challenge readers to look deeper. His writing is not simply meant to entertain, but to encourage, convict, and inspire.

At the heart of Terry Leatherwood’s work is a clear purpose: to make an eternal difference in people’s lives. Whether through fiction that asks hard questions or non-fiction that speaks directly to the soul, his goal is to create writing that stays with readers long after the final page.