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Teri LaFlesh

TERI LAFLESH is the author of Curly Like Me: How to Grow Your Hair Healthy, Long, and Strong, a guide to caring for tightly curly hair.

LaFlesh holds a B.S. in Botany from UC Santa Cruz and has worked as a freelance botanical illustrator.

When she’s not writing, LaFlesh runs TightlyCurly.com, a website she created to help people with very curly hair. Her book draws on her own experience as a person of mixed Black and white heritage navigating the care of tightly curly hair.

Teri lives near Seattle with her husband.

Teri LaFlesh’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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