Tara Ballard

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Tara Ballard

O/S On Call History University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
OLDH 612
Lincoln, NE 68588-0327
Phone
402-472-2414 On-campus 2-2414
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.