Lucy Tan is the author of two novels. What We Were Promised was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, a Washington Post Best Book of 2018, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Tiger’s Mouth is forthcoming from Thousand Voices, an imprint of Penguin Random House, this November. Lucy is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the August Derleth Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and The Sun. Originally from New Jersey, Lucy lives and writes in Seattle, where she is a bookseller at Secret Garden Books.