LORI TUCKER-SULLIVAN earned her MFA in her 40s and reset her path. Then her husband, Kevin, received a fatal diagnosis. Tucker-Sullivan then returned to writing and since her husband’s death has written of the widowhood experience on the blog “The Widow’s Apprenticeship.” Her Pushcart-nominated essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salón, y The Sun, and in the anthologies Detroit Guidebook, 100 Words of Solitude, y Red State Blues. Her essay, Detroit, 2015 was selected as a Notable Essay in Los Mejores Ensayos Americanos. She holds an MFA from Spalding. I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy (Backbeat Books) is her first book.