Tiffany Marie Tucker is a PhD student in creative writing and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, where they are an Albert C. Yates Fellow. They are also a recent recipient of an MFA from the University of Iowa’s nonfiction writing program. At Iowa, they earned several university fellowships to aid in the completion of their thesis and memoir in progress, Hated on Mostly. Before studying writing, Tiffany published a fashion blog, Fat Shopaholic, which was featured in The New York Times. Their work has been published in The Rumpus and Cereal Magazine.