Award-winning writer Maria Luisa Tucker has covered crime, courts, politics, mental health and housing for The Village Voice, AlterNet.org, the Santa Fe Reporter and several other publications.

Tucker began her journalism career as a stringer for several small town newspapers in Texas. Later, as a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter, an alt-weekly in New Mexico, she won a national media reporting award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Tucker also won accolades from the New Mexico Press Association for investigative and in-depth reporting.

As an investigative reporter for The Village Voice, Tucker's stories have run the gamut from wonky to grisly. In addition to reporting on landlord-tenant disputes and zoning issues, she also went undercover with a group of white supremacists, investigated new forms of electroshock therapy, and exposed the undertaker from hell.

Tucker earned a B.A. from Texas State University and an M.A. from Columbia University. She currently works as a freelance journalist in Brooklyn.

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