Tara Campbell

With a BA in English and an MA in German, Tara Campbell has a demonstrated aversion to money and power. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she has also lived in Oregon, Ohio, New York, Germany and Austria. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and an oversized philodendron named Maxine.

Tara is an MFA candidate at American University, a fiction editor at Barrelhouse, a Kimbilio Fellow, and recipient of the 2018 Robert Gover Story Prize. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has recognized her with the following awards: the Larry Neal Writers' Award, the Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist, and a 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship. She teaches fiction in various venues such as American University, the Writer's Center, and the National Gallery of Art.

Her prior publication credits include Strange Horizons, SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Luna Station Quarterly, Toasted Cake Podcast, Booth, Jellyfish Review, Mad Scientist Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Her debut novel, TreeVolution, was published in 2016, and her collection, Circe's Bicycle, was released spring 2018.