Chris L. Terry was born in 1979 to an African-American father and Irish-American mother. His satirical novel Black Card is set in Richmond, Virginia and will be published by Catapult in August 2019. Terry’s debut novel Zero Fade was on Best of 2013 lists by Kirkus Reviews and Slate.com and shortlisted for the American Library Association’s YALSA BFYA. He lived in Richmond during his high school and college years and now lives in Los Angeles.