JOURNALIST. AUTHOR. Teacher.

Terry Greene Sterling is a journalist, author and teacher. She grew up on an Arizona cattle ranch, and often visited her grandmother, uncles, aunts and cousins in Sonora. Because her family was rooted in two cultures, she has long written about the people, policies and landscapes of the borderlands. A conversational Spanish speaker, she is a three time Arizona Journalist of the Year and the winner of over fifty-eight international, national and regional writing and reporting honors. She’s the co-author of Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino resistance, published by the University of California Press in April, 2021, and the the author of Illegal, Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone, published by Globe Pequot Press in 2010.

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Terry’s bylines have appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Slate, Village Voice, The Guardian, High Country News, Arizona Highways, Phoenix New Times, The Arizona Republic, Salon.com and many other publications. Her work was selected for inclusion in Longform.org and the Investigative Reporters and Editors website.  

She is editor at large for the Arizona Center of Investigative Reporting.

She’s presented for Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Poynter Institute, and has been invited to speak at numerous colleges, universities, think tanks and libraries. She taught narrative journalism from 2003 to 2022 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. At Cronkite, she directed the Borderlands digital reporting team for Cronkite News, and has taught Magazine Writing, Reporting, Sustainability Writing, Depth Reporting, Food and Media and Reporting on Indigenous Communities, which she co-teaches with Indian Country Today editor Mark Trahant.  

She lives in the desert near Phoenix with her husband and a white dog that eats carrots.

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