Teena is the author of Finding Faith in the City Care Forgot, an author’s journey down the narrow one-way streets of New Orleans, across the longest bridge in America, and getting lost in the bayous of south Louisiana as she pursued stories of faith. He quest led her to answered prayers, a hundred year old prophecy fulfilled and a thirty-eight year old mystery revealed, but it was the atheist who solidified her faith in God.

She is freelance writer; editor of NOLA.com's Faith, Beliefs and Spirituality blog; contributor to Faith Walk Magazine; member of the Southern Christian Writers Guild and The Northshore Literary Society. She is also a certified Belief Therapist and credentialed minister with the Assemblies of God. Teena lives on the west bank of New Orleans with her husband of twenty-seven years. They have two sons, one daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.