Teri Woods was born in Delaware and then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she worked for eight years as a legal secretary/paralegal in a law office there. In 1993, she began writing Faithful to the Game and began submitting it to publishers. The manuscript stayed inert in a closet for two years after it was rejected. She started selling handcrafted copies of the book out of the trunk of her car in 1998. After the popularity of the handcrafted books, she founded Meow Meow Productions, a publishing and production firm.

Teri Woods and her three children live in New Jersey. She's now working on her next book.