Tiffany Marie Tucker is a second-year Ph.D. student in Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati where they are an Albert C. Yates Fellow. They are also a recent recipient of an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. At Iowa, they earned several university fellowships to aid in the completion of their thesis and memoir in progress, Hated on Mostly. Their work is published or is forthcoming in the Rumpus, Cereal Magazine, and Tri-Quarterly.