Notre Dame graduate Tracy Neis has worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, Boston and New Jersey. Her published pieces include articles on professional wrestling, a player-piano-repair-woman, and a vet who worked on the Iditarod. She occasionally contributes to BeatleFan Magazine. Her first book, A Collective Biography of African-American Poets, is slated for a fall 2010 release. She presently lives in North Orange County, California.