On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Lisa Tucker passed away in her sleep. She was at her home in Richmond, Virginia.

Lisa was a teacher, a novelist, a wife, a mother. She held graduate degrees in mathematics and English. She published six novels. She taught students, nurtured plants, and worked math and logic puzzles with her husband in the evenings.

Lisa was a brilliant and forceful critic—of philosophy, classics, contemporary literature, television, whatever she could get her hands on. She included quotes from Wordsworth in both her resume and her meatball recipe. She knew (and could sing) nearly every advertising jingle from the 1970s on. She delighted in raising her son: learning with him, playing with him, laughing with him, and watching him grow into a teacher and a writer, as she was.

Lisa loved things completely and powerfully. Towards the end of her life she suffered intensely from lupus and trigeminal neuralgia. Yet she always aimed to live in the future, in what could be. To be with Lisa was to laugh, to analyze, to argue, to plan, to dream.

Lisa is survived by her husband, Scott; her son, Miles; her daughter-in-law, Isabel; her grandson, Silas; her dear sister, Laurie Ward; her niece, Emily Ward; her brother-in-law, Jim Crotinger; and her brothers, Steve and Jim George. Services will be private.