Tara Ballard

Poet

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Author's Bio

Tara Ballard holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Her home state is Alaska.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Ford City Anthology (Urban Farmhouse Press, )

Truth to Power (Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, )

Book:

House of the Night Watch (New Rivers Press, 2018)

Journals:

Apeiron Review

Bellingham Review

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

Bridge Eight Literary Magazine

International Poetry Review

Michigan Quarterly Review

Mslexia

North American Review

One

Poetry Northwest

Salamander

The Sierra Nevada Review

Silk Road

TSR: The Southampton Review

Spoon River Poetry Review

Visions International

War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities

Wasafiri

Prizes won:

Tara's collection won the 2016 Many Voices Project prize in poetry. She was the recipient of a Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize in 2019. In 2025, she received a fellowship from The New School's Institute for Critical Social Inquiry.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Alaska

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Last update: Sep 19, 2025