short author bio [43 words]

Tara Deal is a New York writer of fiction, free verse, and urban fragments. She is the author of three award-winning novellas: Life / Insurance (Regal House), That Night Alive (Miami University Press), and Palms Are Not Trees After All (Texas Review Press).

long author bio [126 words]

Tara Deal is a New York writer of fiction, free verse, and urban fragments. She is the author of three novellas: Life / Insurance (winner of the Fugere Book Prize from Regal House), That Night Alive (winner of the Novella Prize from Miami University Press), and Palms Are Not Trees After All (winner of the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press). Her poetry and prose can be found in Passages North, Tampa Review Online, Washington Square Review, and West Branch, among others. Her shortest story appears in Hint Fiction (Norton).

Tara has an A.B. degree in American history and literature from Harvard and an M.A. in English from New York University. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina.

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