Terrance Dean

Writer and author, Terrance Dean is the author of the Essence Magazine best-seller Hiding In Hip Hop - On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood (Simon & Schuster/Atria Books - May 2008). He is also the author of Reclaim Your Power! A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing and Inspiration for Men of Color (Random House/Villard - May 2003); Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris, (Kensington – May 2010); Straight From Your Gay Best Friend –- The Straight-Up Truth About Relationships, Work, and Having a Fabulous Life! (Agate/Bolden Books - October 2010); and, MOGUL: A Novel (Simon & Schuster/Atria Books - June 2011).

Dean is a Divinity graduate student at Vanderbilt University working on his Masters in Theology.

Dean’s lecturing and workshops have been featured at noted institutions such as Brown University, Ohio University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University, Long Island University, and New York University.

Dean is a 2005 John Seigenthaler Journalism Fellow from Vanderbilt University. He is a contributing writer to the anthologies, “Souls of My Brothers” and “Always Too Soon.” Dean has been featured in Newsweek, Time magazine, New York Magazine, The Observer UK, Genre, VIBE, Hip Hop Weekly, Toronto NOW and Essence magazine. He has also appeared across the country, and internationally, on popular syndicated radio shows – NPR, The BBC, Russ Par, and The Wendy Williams Experience. He has made national television appearances on Fox’s The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, and Fox’s Red Eye, NBC 10 Philadelphia, ABC 6 Philadelphia, WB 11 New York, and FOX 2 in Detroit. He writes for Bossip.com, HelloBeautiful.com; The Advocate, and The Tennessean. He has also written for VIBE, ESSENCE, and The New York Sun.