Lori Tucker-Sullivan

Lori Tucker-Sullivan is a writer, speaker and educator. Her writing has appeared in major publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, The Manifest-Station, Passages North, The Sun, The Cancer Poetry Project, and others, as well as the anthologies Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, 100 Words of Solitude: Writers on the Pandemic, and Red State Blues. She is a contributor to Suleika Jaouad’s Isolation Journals Substack. Her essays, “Detroit, 2015” and “Time, Touch, and a Whale’s Grief, were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. “Detroit, 2015” was also listed as a Notable Essay of 2015 in Best American Essays. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Spalding University. Her first book, I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy, from Backbeat/Bloomsbury was released in June, 2024. It profiles the widows of rock stars and what they taught her about grief.