Lora René Tucker

Lora René Tucker, Brooklyn born and educated, is a poet, activist, and essayist. Her “nine to fives” were a corporate interior designer, credentialed alcohol and drug counsellor, and licensed social worker and psychotherapist. With over 40 years advocating for racial and social justice, she has taught master’s level classes in diversity, racism, oppression. and privilege.

Known as the “Therapeutic Poet,” Lora has been featured in NYC since 1992. She creates workshops in poetry therapy, speaks and facilitates professional mental health seminars and racial justice workshops. She has been featured and published in venues such as: The Write America Podcast, The East Hampton Star, Canio’s Bookstore, “The Church” in Sag Harbor, the Knitting Factory, The Southampton Revue, and Brooklyn Poets. She has also blogged for POZ online magazine and Harlem World.

Since settling in Sag Harbor, Lora co-facilitated a wellness workshop for the Parrish Museum, was involved in racial justice seminars with Canio’s bookstore, and facilitated film discussions titled “Tough Talk” at the John Jermain Memorial Library. She is currently studying for her MFA in Creative Writing at Stony Brook University/ Southampton; her thesis is on her search for her father’s patriotic contributions as a Tuskegee Airman. She twice received the Sarah Martell Award for mature women returning to academia and She was a research assistant for the Pulitzer-prize winner, Paul Harding.

Currently she is the poetry editor for African Voices literary magazine, conducts therapeutic poetry/writing workshops for Stony Brook/Southampton Hospital’s Wellness Center and is performing in “The Vagina Monologues for Hope & Resilience Long Island on the East end, including at The Southampton Cultural Center on February 21st, 2026.