Tracy L. Thompson is a U.S. Navy veteran and a graduate of the University of South Florida and Yale Law School.  She is a Pennsylvania native living and writing in New York's capital region. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Smoky Quartz, Welter, Global Poemic, and Bards Against Hunger 10th Anniversary Edition: An Anthology of National and International Poets. “Out Like a Lion” is her debut novel.