Lisa Tucker

LISA TUCKER is the author of The Song Reader, and a new novel, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in April 2004, Shout Down The Moon. She grew up in small towns outside of Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, and has toured the Midwest with a jazz band and worked as a waitress, writing teacher, office cleaner, and math professor. She has a graduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and a graduate degree in math from Villanova University. Her fiction has appeared in Seventeen and Pages, and is forthcoming in the music-inspired anthology, Lit Riffs.

She currently lives with her husband and son in northern New Mexico, where she is at work on another novel.