Tamika Thompson is a writer, producer, and journalist. Her writing has been published by, or is forthcoming in, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Huffington Post, Glass Mountain, and Literary Orphans, among others. She has attended the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, worked for several years in both New York and Los Angeles, and currently lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.