Tara is an emerging writer from Iowa City, Iowa. She writes poetry, creative nonfiction and is working on a tv series chronicling how she had a prophylactic double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, only to get a rare cancer from her implant based breast reconstruction--so, irony, she writes a lot about irony and the duality of life and its complexities as she has survived and documented them along the way. Tara has studied creative writing and literature at the University of Iowa as an undergrad, ultimately earning her B.A. in English. She also studied 3 summers at Yale University as part of the Yale Writers' Workshop.