Bio

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Lucy Tan is the author of the novels Tiger's Mouth (forthcoming from Thousand Voices) and What We Were Promised (Little, Brown), which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post.

Lucy holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was winner of the August Derleth Prize. A recipient of support from Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Lucy has published in journals such as American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares. She currently lives and writes in Seattle, where she is also a bookseller at Secret Garden Books.