Nola Tully spent several years as a photojournalist based in New York. She has worked with the Sygma picture agency, and her photos have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Life, Paris Match, and Stern; in exhibits; and in a book on the Gulf War. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and painting and art history at Hunter College, and she received her master's in writing from Columbia University. She is currently finishing her first novel. This is her first fiction publication.