SELECTED REVIEWS:
“Deluge by Leila Chatti.” Rain Taxi.
“‘I Find in the Mirror a Woman’: (Bodily) Citizenship in Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive.” Tupelo Quarterly.
“’The Miles Spent in Flight’: Inheritance and Memory in Ángel García’s Indifferent Cities.” Action, Spectacle.
“O by Zeina Hashem Beck.” Rain Taxi.
“Refugee by Pamela Uschuk.” Rain Taxi.
“‘The Wandering Shape of You’: Evidence and Recollection in Iliana Rocha’s The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez.” Tupelo Quarterly.
“‘We, the Source’: Tara Ballard on the Resilience of Women in Maggie Queeney’s settler.” Heavy Feather Review.
“‘Whispering Dominium’: Witness and Want in Corey Van Landingham’s Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens.” Heavy Feather Review.
“The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser.” Rain Taxi.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 392: Twenty-First-Century African American Poets. South Carolina: BCL, Inc.
The Journal of American Culture
Urban Farmhouse Press’s Ford City Workshop Anthology
BOOKS:
Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project Prize in Poetry; New Rivers Press
SELECTED POEMS:
Grateful acknowledgments to the editors and presses who have accepted Tara Ballard’s work. Select poems have been published in the following magazines and collections:
The Atlantic
Bellevue Literary Review
The Dodge: “Jet Stream and Conflagration, or I, too, Am Covered in Ash“
New York Quarterly
North American Review
Poetry Northwest
The Shore: “Love“
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES:
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival’s Hasret / Longing
Cutthroat‘s Speaking Truth to Power
SELECTED CREATIVE NONFICTION:
North American Review
Urban Farmhouse Press’ Ford City Anthology
SELECTED INTERVIEWS:
Bellingham Review
Speaking of Marvels
SELECTED AWARDS:
Recipient of a Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize through the Academy of American Poets
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tar River Poetry
Finalist for a Barjeel Poetry Prize in English
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Alaska Women Speak
Winner of a Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize: Third Place
Semi-finalist in Grist: A Journal for Writers‘ ProForma Poetry Contest
Winner of the Many Voices Project Competition: House of the Night Watch
Finalist in the Writers @ Work Fellowship Competition
Finalist in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition: Manuscript
Semi-finalist in Cutthroat’s Joy Harjo Poetry Contest
Tara Ballard 