Tara L. Masih
AITL Media selected Tara for an Inspirational Woman in Literature Award. She is also editor of the acclaimed Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. She founded The Best Small Fictions series.
Tara has been widely anthologized, and her essays have been read on NPR and translated into dance (see under Videos).
Tara was a regular contributor to The Indian-American and Masala magazines and is a member of the Historical Novel Society and St. Augustine's Historical Society. She is on the editorial board of the place-based online journal Terrain.org and lives in the wetlands of St. Augustine, Florida.
“Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.”
Tara L. Masih