Teresa Wiltz

Teresa Wiltz is an award-winning journalist who was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Atlanta and Staten Island, New York. She has lived in Guatemala and Mexico and has reported from Senegal, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Europe. After graduating from Dartmouth College, she pursued a career in dance and performed with several modern dance companies. On retiring from dance, she received a master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Over the course of her career, she has worked for the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Root, and Essence. Her essays are featured in Souls of My Sisters, City: Chicago 2000 and in the literary journal Konch, edited by poet Ishmael Reed. Wiltz lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and their dog.