Lori Tucker-Sullivan

Lori Tucker-Sullivan knew as a teen that she wanted to write about rock stars. It took a few years, but here she is. In the meantime, she accrued titles like wife, mom, and teacher. She and her late husband Kevin even rehabbed an abandoned farmhouse. In her 40's she returned to writing, earning an MFA from Spalding University. In the midst of that work, Kevin was diagnosed with head and neck cancer and Lori added caregiver to her list of titles. To help her deal with her grief, she called on her love of music writing and sought out the widows of the rock stars she had always hoped to profile. The result is her book, I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love and Legacy, where she profiles the widows of some of popular music's biggest stars. Writing the book was life-saving and life-changing.

Lori's writing has also appeared in various magazines and journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Manifest-Station, Motherwell, Passages North, The Sun, Midwestern Gothic and others, as well as the anthologies Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, 100 Words of Solitude: Writers on the Pandemic, and Red State Blues. Her essay, “Detroit, 2015” about her decision to return to Detroit after the Kevin's death, was one of two of her essays that was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed as a Notable Essay of 2015 in Best American Essays.