Tysa Goodrich

Tysa spent most of her career as a musician, composer, and songwriter. She toured as a rock keyboardist and vocalist, traveled through twenty-six states and Canada before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s. She chronicled the shenanigans of Top 40 musicians on the road—a now defunct profession—writing stories about playing East Coast mafia clubs, meditating in the closet at the Holiday Inn in Atlanta, a band equipment hijacking, and late-night UFO encounters while motoring between gigs.

She has completed her debut novel, Path of Totality, about a Vietnam Veteran of mixed heritage, Ojibwe and White. Ten years after his service, he’s at the end of his rope and holed up in a rest area in Southern Minnesota—following an impetuously decided detour coming back from a funeral. He is about to be reunited with a childhood friend—a caucasian girl he’d known for seven days in the summer of ’62—by means of a photograph materializing on the front seat of her 1973 Dodge Dart as she heads down the same highway. wildcoyotes.com/Totality.html