Lara Tupper is the author of four books: At the Center a literary/speculative novel (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing, 2027), Amphibians, a short story collection (Leapfrog Global Fiction Award winner; Leapfrog Press), Off Island, a fictional re-imagining of Paul Gauguin's travels (finalist, Housatonic Book Award; Encircle) and A Thousand and One Nights (Harcourt and Untreed Reads), an autobiographical novel about singers at sea. She cowrote the screenplay for A Thousand and One Nights. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Epiphany, Nowhere, Ghost Story, etc. and in many anthologies, including TRUTH (2024, Young Writers for Democratic Action). A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she taught for nearly a decade at Rutgers University and now offers writing workshops and book coaching via Swift Ink Stories. She is also a jazz/folk singer who has traveled the world; her latest album is This Dance.