Wyn Reed

Aisling "Tucker" Moore-Reed (born October 15, 1989) is an American former novelist, journalist and actress. Under her pen name Tucker Reed, she co-authored the acclaimed young adult fantasy novel Amber House (2012) and its sequel Neverwas (2014), published by Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books imprint. She later appeared as the lead in the independent horror film From the Dark (2020), using the stage name Wyn Reed. Raised in Ashland, Oregon, Reed was the daughter of New York Times bestselling author Kelly Moore and English teacher Daniel Reed. Her early life was marked by artistic pursuits: she performed in school and community theater, wrote award-winning essays, sang and wrote music for a band, and served as editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper. After high school, she studied broadcast journalism, theater, and cinema at the University of Southern California, where she also wrote for the Daily Trojan. Reed’s literary career began in her teens, when she persuaded her mother and younger sister, Larkin, to collaborate on Amber House. The novel was widely praised, named to the 2014 Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS reading list, and became a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Reed also narrated the audiobook editions of the series. Reed’s career took a dramatic turn in 2016, when she was arrested in connection with the shooting death of her uncle, Shane Moore, in Applegate, Oregon. Though she initially claimed self-defense, video evidenc…