Tara Deal was born in Savannah, Georgia, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. After receiving degrees from Harvard and New York University, she then worked as a book editor, most recently at Oxford University Press, before leaving to pursue a freelance career.

Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines, including failbetter, Flyway, FRiGG, The King’s English, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, nthposition, and West Branch. In 2007, her poetry chapbook, Wander Luster, was published by Finishing Line Press, and her novella, Palms Are Not Trees After All, won the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press.

She currently lives with her husband in New York City. (A few things in the city she can't get enough of: sushi bars, shoes at Loehmann’s, jewelry for sale on the street, Casa Magazines, Esca, and the Empire State Building.) Her other interests include bookbinding and metalsmithing. And she is an excellent first mate when forced to go sailing.

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