Contact Information
Email: chrislte@umbc.edu
Office: PAHB 405
Education
M.F.A. in Creative Writing – Fiction, Columbia College Chicago
B.A. in English, Virginia Commonwealth University
Biography
Chris L. Terry is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Professor Terry’s fiction and nonfiction both explore punk counterculture, multiracial Black identity, and ideas of home and nostalgia; and his books have received accolades from NPR, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Kirkus Reviews, and more. He especially likes to read speculative fiction, noir, and pop culture-informed realism, and often brings those interests into his creative writing courses.
Books
Black Punk Now, literary anthology co-edited with James Spooner, Soft Skull Press, 2023
Black Card, novel, Catapult, 2019
Zero Fade, novel, Curbside Splendor, 2013
Representative Publications
“Emo Dads,” essay, Razorcake 147, 2025
“House Meeting,” short story, 120 Murders anthology, Ruadán Books, 2025
“French Girl Chic,” short story, Rejection Letters, 2025
“Didn’t It Rain Turns 20,” narrative review, Stereogum, 2022
“Tragic Gentrification Mulatto,” essay, Catapult, 2021
“The Joy and the Fury of Soul Glo’s Defiantly Black Hardcore,” narrative review, Stereogum, 2020
“Robert E. Lee’s Horse’s Ass Made Me Black,” essay, The Root, 2019
“At Home with Rapper’s Delight,” short story, Best Small Fictions 2015 anthology, 2015
“Graffiti,” short story, PANK, 2013