Teri Woods is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, associated with the urban fiction genre.

Woods completed her first novel, True to the Game, in 1992 while working at a law firm in Philadelphia. Despite submitting the work to numerous publishers for six years, it was rejected by all. In 1998, she decided to have the copies printed herself, hand-selling the novel to booksellers initially in Philadelphia and eventually across the United States. This led to the establishment of Teri Woods Publishing.

Focusing primarily on the urban fiction genre, her publishing house targeted a demographic often overlooked by major publishers. Her success paved the way for a multimillion-dollar contract with Hachette Book Group USA to re-release her previously published novels.

In 2015, her novel True to the Game was adapted into a film of the same name. Besides urban fiction, Woods has authored several children's books, some illustrated by Blueberry Illustrations.

Woods is also known as the sister of Dexter Wansel, an American keyboardist.