(Mary) Terri De la Peña

{{short description|Mexican American writer of novels, short stories and essays}}

(Mary) Terri de la Peña (born 1947) is a Mexican American writer of novels, short stories and essays.{{cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=Emmanuel S.|title=Encyclopedia of contemporary LGBTQ literature of the United States|date=2009|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=9780313348600|page=176}} Her works have addressed lesbian sexuality,{{cite book|last1=Torres|first1=Lourdes|last2=Pertusa|first2=Inmaculada|title=Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression|date=2003|publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=1592130062}} nature,{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Lorraine|last2=Edwards|first2=Thomas S.|title=At home on this earth : two centuries of U.S. women's nature writing|date=2002|publisher=Hanover, NH|location=University Press of New England|isbn=158465208X|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/athomeonthiseart0000unse}} and Chicana community.{{cite book|last1=Brady|first1=Mary Pat|title=Extinct lands, temporal geographies : Chicana literature and the urgency of space|date=2002|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham|isbn=0822330059}}{{cite book|last1=Danielson|first1=Marivel T.|title=Homecoming queers : desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural production|date=2009|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|isbn=9780813545714}} De la Peña was 45 years old when her first{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-878067-19-7|title=Margins|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=2016-03-30}} book, Margins, was published.