Tara Ballard is from Alaska. Recipient of a Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, Ballard received an MFA in Creative Writing & the Literary Arts and holds a PhD in English. She is a 2025 fellow at The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry.
Ballard is a book reviewer and has published reviews on collections by Ilya Kaminsky and Piotr Florczyk, Iliana Rocha, Leila Chatti, Zeina Hashem Beck, and Maggie Queeney, to name a few.
Ballard has served on the mastheads of Prairie Schooner and Ruminate. She is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review. Her writing is included in The Atlantic, Bellingham Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, The Southampton Review, The Journal of American Culture, and elsewhere in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
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