Lili Wright

Lili Wright is an American author best known for her work Dancing with the Tiger, a literary thriller. She has also written Learning to Float, a highly popular travel memoir. Wright worked as a journalist for a decade before she got her MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University. Since then her journalist works and essays have been featured in Down East, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and The New York Times among many other renowned publications. In late 2016, the Mark Gordon Company acquired the right to adapt Wright’s popular first novel, Dancing with the Tiger into a film. She has been to Mexico many times where she has visited ghost towns, worked as a journalist, watched parades of dancing tigers, lived with Mexican families, started her mask collection, and learned how to speak Spanish. She is currently a professor of journalism and creative writing at DePauw University. She lives in with her husband and two children in Greencastle in an old Victorian era house in Greencastle, Indiana.