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Terri Favro is a Canadian writer. She has written short fiction and non-fiction pieces, for a variety of magazines, a novella, two novels, and book of commentary and prediction on the use or robots in Science Fiction.

Favro's 2014 novella, The Proxy Bride, describes a recent immigrant from Italy discovering organized crime in Ontario's Niagara region in the 1960s. Her 2017 novel Sputnik’s Children, is also set in the Niagara region. In 2018 she published

She was raised in St. Catherines, Ontario, and she set h is set there. In an interview with CBC Books she described how an event that happened while she was growing up in St. Catherines triggered her novel. A high school principal thought a bogus announcement that a nuclear war had started, between the USA and the USSR could be the beginning of a lesson on World History, without anticipating that some students would rush home, and tell their parents, before they had a chance to hear his retraction.

The hero of her novel is a time traveler, who grew up in a world heading for a civilization destroying nuclear war, and is the only one who remembers that history, as her intervention altered events so the war doesn't happen.

CBC Books listed Sputnick's Children in an article about the best Canadian Book Covers of 2017. David Gee, the cover artist, described the book as a challenge to accurately illustrate, as there were so many factors to consider, including comic books, substance abuse, and unreliable narration. He described his impression of the book's brief as "somewhere between Valley of the Dolls and metaphysical young adult fiction — in outer space."

In 2018 Favro published Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation, described as a blend of "memoir, tech reporting" with a bit a science fiction.