Chris Norris (left) is a Boston-born, New York-based, mostly non-fiction writer on sex, drugs, rock, hip-hop, pathology, the media, and the soul. As staff writer for SPIN (1999-2004), he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing and he has had pieces selected for Da Capo's Best Music Writing series and a New York University textbook titled Writing the Essay. He is co-author of the bestselling hip-hop Bildungsroman The Tao of Wu with Wu Tang Clan mastermind RZA, who describes him as "a student of philosophy, a very smart guy."

This website (in progress) offers some samples of his work.