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, Salon, and The Sun, and in the anthologies Detroit Guidebook, 100 Words of Solitude, and Red State Blues. Her essay, Detroit, 2015 was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. 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.