Dr. Tara W. Zafft, poet and essayist, is most recently Winner of the Moonlit Getaway Poetry Prize, and was Ephemera Newsletter's  "Poet of the Month" for August 2024

 

Some of her work has been published in Rumors Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, We’ve Always Done It: Poems about Wartime Women, Write-Haus, Aether Avenue Press, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf, The Field Guide Magazine, and Powder Press.

 

She holds a PhD from the University of Bath in Modern Languages on the role of women in Russian Literature. She also has a BA in Russian Literature from University of California, San Diego.

 

Tara writes about family, motherhood, grief, and joy. She lives with her husband and visits her three adult children as often as she can.