Lara Tupper

Lara Tupper is the award-winning author of four books: At the Center, a literary/speculative novel about cults and book bans (Regal House, 2027), Amphibians, a story collection set around the world (Leapfrog Global Fiction Award winner; Leapfrog Press), Off Island, a fictional re-imagining of Paul Gauguin's adventures (finalist, Housatonic Book Award; Encircle Publications) and A Thousand and One Nights (Harcourt and Histria Books), an autobiographical novel about her years as a lounge singer on cruise ships and in luxury hotels. She co-wrote the screenplay adaptation for A Thousand and One Nights. Lara's work has appeared in The Believer, Epiphany, Zone 3, Ghost Story, etc. and been anthologized in many collections. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she taught writing at Rutgers University and now presents workshops and manuscript development via Swift Ink Stories, her writing platform. She is working on a memoir/biography (Daughter of Congress) about her father, a former politician from Maine.