Tiffany Marie Tucker

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My name is Tiffany Marie Tucker. I am a 2nd year MFA candidate in the Creative Nonfiction Program. I teach a service learning section of Interpretation of Literature.  

I am also a fellow at the Center for Afrofuturists Studies where I aid in producing art programs that explore how Black people exist in speculative and futurist media.  

Currently, I am writing essays for a collection tentatively titled Hated on Mostly, a title taken from Crime Mob’s second album. The collection will be a Black woman-centered work that blends personal experience, cultural critique, theory, and humor to create essays that are intellectually and emotionally rigorous without sacrificing pleasure and joy. My focus is the underappreciated pop culture artifacts and art objects black girls love. I want to critique these art objects, I want to write love letters to them. 

One of these essays is a literary portrait of my grandmother, a black woman that held a love of fashion in her heart as she picked cotton on a sharecropping plantation in the 1940s. In this essay, I plan to explore the role fashion and adornment played in identity making for Black women. Another essay will explore the import of urban romance to some Black women’s reading lives utilizing literary romance theory and my own experiences. 

The essay I am currently revising is a portrait of The Negro Motorist Green Book that explores the freedom of driving and its harms from the perspective of a writer that cannot drive. It is called "Picture Me Rolling" after the 2 Pac song.

My first published essay is called "If You Let Me Tell You a Story" and was featured in The Rumpus. 

Before attending UIowa I earned a B.A. in English with minors in Creative Writing and Media Studies. For ten years I was a fashion blogger at Fat Shopaholic. Now, I just post outfits on Instagram occasionally. 

Outside of writing and teaching, I enjoy attending concerts, having nerdy conversations about music, watching too many YouTube videos, and dressing better than most people. 

 Right now, I am trying to get tickets to the B2k concert and reading a romance novel called A Princess in Theory.

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