Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of a Julia Ward Howe Award for her debut YA novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Her forthcoming novel, The Silent Women, takes readers on a place-based journey during WWII, from rural New England to the Secret City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and beyond. How We Disappear, her latest story collection, won a Florida Book Award, and her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in numerous literary magazines, including Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, The Caribbean Writer, Five Points, and Pleiades.. Her work appears in such collections as W.W. Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction; Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose; Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming; and Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers with Mixed Heritages. Additional recognition includes The Ledge Magazine’s Fiction Award, a Wigleaf Top 50 Award, and a finalist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition, her fiction was awarded two Neville Citations for best climate fiction of the year and a portion of her climate essay “Be Prepared to Evacuate” was translated into dance. Tara is editor of the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and founded the Best Small Fictions series. Much of her writing is set within the framework of nature and place, a result of the years she spent outdoors in the woods and on the shores of Long Island Sound.
