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Tara L. Masih

Tara Masih grew up on Long Island’s north shore, in the small harbor town of East Northport. After graduating from C.W. Post College, she moved to Boston and earned an MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, where she taught freshman composition and grammar and tutored students with writing problems. She has worked as a publisher’s assistant to Pym-Randall Press; as an assistant editor to STORIES literary magazine; as an editorial assistant at Little, Brown’s college division; and as a book editor at Bedford Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Since 1993 she has worked full-time as a freelance book packager, copyeditor, and proofreader for such companies as Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine Books, and Harvard University Press (and proofreads for the self-publishing company Glenna Collet Design). Tara has published fiction, poetry, essays, profiles, and articles (Confrontation, The Caribbean Writer, Hayden’s Ferry Review, divide, Red River Review, New Millennium Writings), and her essays have been read on NPR.

She was a regular contributor to the Indian-American and Masala magazines, in which her essays on the topic of race and culture were often featured. She appears in A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women; has served on the advisory board for the Robert Frost Foundation; and judges the annual Soul-Making Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay Prize sponsored by the San Francisco branch of the National League of American Pen Women (guidelines at www.soulmakingcontest.us).

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.

Brief Writer's Bio for Press:

Tara L. Masih is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a ForeWord Book of the Year) and author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories (a finalist in the National Best Books 2010 Awards). She has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (including Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, The Pedestal, Night Train, and The Caribbean Writer) and several limited edition illustrated chapbooks featuring her flash fiction have been published by The Feral Press. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations.

Copyright © Tara L. Masih 2012