Theresa J. Royal was born and reared in Willimansett, Massachusetts. She graduated from Chicopee High School where she took Secretary training. Terri, as she is affectionately known, met and married her husband Jim who was in the Air Force and became a beautician. After her husband retired from the Air Force, she became a pastor's wife for 24 years. Both she and her husband did voluntary mission work for eleven years in Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico. Terri has spent forty years teaching, and still teaches Ladies Bible studies. She is the author of the Simply Book Series: "Simply Put, Practical Biblical Application For All Our Life," "Simply Devotions, Daily Spiritual Renewal for Living," and "Simply Revelation, a Simple Look at a Complicated Book".