Tara Ballard

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Tara Ballard

Summer Instructional Faculty English University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
LLS 319
Lincoln NE 68588-4100
Phone
402-472-4547 On-campus 2-4547
Email
tballard4@unl.edu
Website

Tara Ballard is a Ph.D. student in English from Alaska. Within the doctoral program, Tara's area of specialization is creative writing, with a focus on poetry. She is an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner, an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, and a research assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive. Tara is the author of House of the Night Watch (New Rivers Press), which won the 2016 Many Voices Project prize in poetry. Her poems have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Tar River Poetry, and other literary magazines. Her work received a 2019 Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Prize.