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Lili Wright

Biography

Lili Wright

Lili Wright spent a decade as a journalist before enrolling in Columbia University’s MFA program in nonfiction. In 1999, degree in hand, she accepted a tenure track position at Depauw University. While she was still writing nonfiction, her work appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun. LEARNING TO FLOAT, her memoir of a trip from Maine to Key West, was included on The Washington Post’s best summer reads list. DANCING WITH THE TIGER took her five years and thirty drafts.

Lili Wright

Books by Lili Wright

Dancing with the Tiger
by Lili Wright - Fiction, Thriller

 

It begins when a meth-addicted grave robber unearths the death mask of Montezuma, setting off a violent struggle. There is the drug lord who employs him, who would kill for that mask. There is the respected curator who, for a fee, will provide provenances for his country’s looted artifacts. And his long-suffering housekeeper, a lesbian in a culture of machismo, who despises her patron. There is Salvador, sensual and mercurial. And there is the grave digger himself, running for his life. Above all, there is Anna Ramsey, an American with a history of bad choices. For her, the mask is a means of restoring her father’s damaged reputation and perhaps recovering the love she knew when her family was still whole.