Tara Deal is a writer, editor, and New Yorker living in London. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as West Branch, Flyway, failbetter.com, and nthposition, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook Wander Luster (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Her novella, Palms Are Not Trees After All, won the 2007 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press.