Teri woods birthdate

1968—

Novelist, publisher

Novelist and publisher Teri Woods is one of the pioneers of urban fiction, also known as street lit, a contemporary fiction genre that takes inspiration and setting from the predominantly black culture in America's cities.

Woods's novels portray the struggles of inner-city residents seeking to escape poverty through crime, and she has found a growing audience for her novels among those raised and living in the environment she depicts. Woods self-published her first novel in 1999 and became a publishing industry entrepreneur, with an independent publishing company and several of her books in transition to film.

Woods was born in 1968 in Media, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.

Woods, whose father was African-American and mother was a blend of Irish and Indian, spent most of her young life in West Philadelphia, where she witnessed firsthand the criminal element of urban culture. Woods had a turbulent youth and left home at an early