Lucido studied computer science at Brown University and became a software engineer for Facebook and Uber.

While working at Uber, she completed a master's degree at Hamline University in literature for children and young adults.

[2][3] Lucido began writing crosswords during college when a group of Brown students wrote all the puzzles for one week in The New York Times.

It is a story in verse about a girl at a new school who learns the programming language Java and rediscovers her love of music.

[7] Her second book, Recipe for Disaster, followed in 2021, telling the story of a girl, Hannah, who studies to have a bat mitzvah against her parents' wishes.