Tara Ballard is from Alaska. Ballard is currently an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review and previously served as an assistant editor for Prairie Schooner. Recipient of a Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and received her PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project competition, Ballard’s first book, House of the Night Watch is available from New Rivers Press. Her poems have been published by The Atlantic, Bellevue Literary Review, Bellingham Review; Diode; Michigan Quarterly Review; New York Quarterly; North American Review; Poetry Northwest; Salamander; The Southampton Review; Tar River Poetry; War, Literature and the Arts; Wasafiri, and other literary magazines. Her scholarship has been published in The Journal of American Culture, and she is a 2025 fellow of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School.
Tara Ballard 