Elizabeth Tucker

ELIZABETH (LIBBY) TUCKER enjoys writing and talking about folklore, especially folklore of the supernatural. Before studying folklore at Indiana University, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, where she learned about the importance of cultural traditions. She has edited Children's Folklore Review and the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research's e-newsletter, FOAFtale News; she wrote a column about ghost stories for Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore for twelve years and currently writes a thrice-yearly column for the International Journal of Play. Her husband, a photographer, has taken many of the photos for her books. She has a golden retriever, two cats, and a doll named Tina, purchased from eBay under the title "haunted doll!" Tina's previous owner says she knew the doll was haunted when lights and a TV kept going on and off without any human intervention. So far, Tina has caused no trouble at Libby's house. A devoted customer of amazon.com, Libby constantly orders new books, including publications by some of her star students at Binghamton University: Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Thom Brucie, Andrei Guruianu, Ellen Potter, Sheila Massoni, Leah Umansky, and others. She looks forward to getting to know more people who love to read and write.