Teresa Rhyne is the pack leader of heart-felt, funny, original dog memoirs.

Her debut memoir The Dog Lived (and So Will I) was published by Sourcebooks in October of 2012 and reached #1 on the New York Times Non-fiction and E-book best-seller lists twice, #1 on the Wall Street Journal Non-fiction best-seller list, and #6 on USA Today’s Top 100 books in the USA. The Dog Lived (and So will I) has been translated into seven different languages (German, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian), was on the best-seller list for 9 consecutive months in Brazil, and is sold around the world.

Her second memoir, The Dogs Were Rescued (and So Was I) was released by Sourcebooks in October of 2014 to immediate acclaim. It won the Pat Santi Memorial Friends of Animals award from the Dog Writers Association of America. Oscar nominee Quinn Cummings, author of The Year of Learning Dangerously and Pet Sounds called The Dogs Were Rescued “…a love letter to our animals, to who they are and who they make us want to be. [Teresa] also reminds us of what her beagles always knew: love deeply, move forward, and never turn down a snack.”

Her latest memoir Poppy In The Wild: A Lost Dog, 1500 Acres of Wilderness, and the Dogged Determination to Bring Her Home was published by Pegasus Books on October 6th, 2020. It is currently available wherever books are sold.

When she is not writing best-selling dog memoirs, Teresa is a full-time estate planning attorney with offices in Paso Robles on California’s Central Coast and in Riverside in Southern California. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Loyola Law School, she is a dedicated vegan and an animal rights activist and dog rescuer.