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Photo credit: Jay Santangelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I\u2019m from Maine, and my thoughts are often there, though my heart (and the rest of me) resides in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. I\u2019m interested in the stories that get covered up, perhaps from living in woodsy places and noticing old stone walls, abandoned gravestones. New Englanders are famously stoic. I like to dig underneath (at least on the page) and see what\u2019s really going on. I like to start with setting. I\u2019m often thinking about place and how it shapes a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most writers, I\u2019ve held odd jobs: clambake waiter, cruise ship entertainer, creative writing instructor, yogi, hotel lounge singer, book reviewer, music booker, chicken wrangler. I\u2019ve had the good fortune to travel widely, and my fiction reflects this. During my stint as a singer\/dancer on a cruise ship – see my autobiographical novel, A Thousand and One Nights<\/em> – I spent summers in Mediterranean ports and winters in the Caribbean. I\u2019ve lived and performed in China, Japan, Thailand, the UAE and the UK. (Think Lost in Translation<\/em> and the fancy hotels where no one listens to the lounge act.) I cowrote the screenplay for A Thousand and One Nights<\/em>. Someday I\u2019ll write the musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got \u201cserious\u201d and enrolled in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, then taught creative writing at Rutgers University and became a professional commuter. (Juggler of coffee\/everything bagels while grading papers on New Jersey Transit.) In this way I also wrote my second novel, Off Island<\/em>, about the frustrations of Mette Gad Gauguin, wife of Paul Gauguin. I set part of this novel in Maine. (What if Gauguin sailed to Monhegan Island instead of the Marquesas?) It\u2019s a murder mystery too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My third book, Amphibians<\/em>, a story collection set in cities around the world, won the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. It\u2019s about flitting between land and sea – feeling out of sorts in all habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One early reader described At the Center<\/em>, my forthcoming novel, as \u201ca timely topic that goes well beyond questions of the ethics (or economics) of book bans and AI\u2026to consider, in a visceral way, the value of story.\u201d It\u2019s set in a cultish retreat compound and features a former teacher, ousted by AI, who writes in contraband notebooks. (Paper shortages have made printed material taboo.) It\u2019s about one woman\u2019s struggle to tell a story that\u2019s hard to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m often distracted by five pet hens, who have names and distinct personalities. (I\u2019ll resist the urge to list them here.) When I need a break from my writing desk, I open the coop and speak to them. I\u2019m fascinated by what they have to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more, please visit https:\/\/www.laratupper.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Lara Tupper’s At the Center<\/em> in the spring of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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