Lily Tuck was born in France and currently lives in New York City with her husband. She has published three novels, including Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man (1999), which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her most recent book is a story collection: Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived (HarperCollins, see Links). Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Bomb, and other magazines.  

Photo by Marion Ettlinger