Scott Robert Tucker was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in Montana. His short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Portland Review, Blood Orange Review, Pif, Main Street Rag, Prick of the Spindle, Mayday, Snow Monkey, The Meadow, and Narrative Magazine (winner of Spring 2010 Short Story competition; Story of the Week in 2011). His poetry has appeared in Cranky, Floating Bridge Review, Main Street Rag, Pontoon, and Snow Monkey. He has had a literary non-fiction piece published in Etude. He has a journalism degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Michigan.