Tara Ballard is from Alaska. For eight years, she and her husband lived in various countries outside of the United States, where they taught English in local area schools and universities. Tara is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review and an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner.
Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project competition, her first book, House of the Night Watch is available from New Rivers Press. Copies can be purchased through Small Press Distribution, Amazon, New Rivers Press, or by visiting The Writer’s Block in Anchorage, Alaska, and Francie & Finch or Indigo Bridge in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Winner of a 2019 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, Tara holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and is now pursuing her PhD in the Midwest. Her poems have been published by 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; and other literary magazines. Her work has thrice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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