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Terp is the award-winning University of Maryland magazine, published each year in January, May and September.
We love to hear from readers. To send a letter to the editor, share your views of the magazine or website, or inform us of a change in address, write terpfeedback@umd.edu or Terp magazine, 2101 Turner Hall, College Park, MD 20742-1521. We also can share announcements of your new job, promotion, wedding, addition to the family, new book and more in Class Notes.
Questions about specific stories? Contact a member of the Terp magazine crew:
University Editor
Lauren Brown
Lauren Brown has been the editor of Terp since 2008—long enough for her two little boys to grow up and become UMD students. A former newspaper editor, she’s never had a cup of coffee because she’s naturally caffeinated. She gets defensive about reading non-literature and takes playing ’80s trivia games a little too seriously.
Chris Carroll came to the University of Maryland in 2015 to write and edit for Terp and other publications after covering topics ranging from agriculture to the environment to the Global War on Terror for various newspapers and magazines for nearly 20 years.
John Consoli
John Consoli ’84, university photographer and Terp’s creative director, is somehow a laid-back perfectionist who shoots 10 times as many photos as he needs at any assignment. He calls nearly everyone a “crazy kook,” he’s an avid gardener, and he travels with his family around the country every summer in a beat-up van called the Love Machine.
Stephanie Cordle
Photographer Stephanie Cordle joined Terp in 2017 after working for newspapers in West Virginia, Washington State and St. Louis. She only half-jokes that she wants to shoot "all the things" on campus and doesn't hesitate to drop to the ground or climb to the top of SECU Stadium to get an interesting angle.
Writer and digital content manager Annie Krakower joined Terp in 2018. A former MLB.com staffer, she’s enjoyed catching games at nearby Camden Yards and Nationals Park—and, of course, on campus at “The Bob.” She’s a fan of adeptly adding alliteration to her stories about sports, student life and other subjects.
Writer Sala Levin ’10, a born-and-bred Marylander, returned to her alma mater in 2016 to join Terp. She likes elaborate cheese boards, the worst New Yorker cartoons and pretending not to be bitter about the time she lost on “Jeopardy!”
Valerie Morgan
Valerie Morgan has been the art director of Terp since 2018, regularly turning the humdrum into something extraordinary. She has a penchant for finding four-leaf clovers (she has over 100 photos of them on her phone) and loves to assist on intricate builds for her son, a burgeoning Lego master.
Karen Shih ’09 has come full circle from her toddler days, when she lived with her parents in University of Maryland graduate housing. She loves trying every new bubble tea shop in College Park, writing about Terps who work with food and animals, and sharing too many pictures of her cat, Noodles.
John Tucker joined Terp in 2024 after writing for newspapers and magazines in New York, Cleveland, St. Louis and Raleigh-Durham. He’s also lived in Rome, Dublin and Belfast and now resides in Baltimore, though he’ll always root for his hometown Philadelphia Eagles.