Tara A. Elliott’s poems have appeared in many journals, including The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, Stirring, and Ninth Letter.  President of Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA), she is also the founder and director of Salisbury Poetry Week, and the co-chair of the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference (BTO).   The 2018 recipient of Maryland Humanities' Christine D. Sarbanes Award, she has also been awarded the Light of Literacy Educator Luminary Award (2016) and the Adult Luminary Award (2020). She served as poet-in-residence for the Freeman Stage, is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), and a grant awardee of Maryland State Arts Council, The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, MD Humanities, Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council, and The Franklin P. & Arthur W. Perdue Foundation.  In 2022, she was awarded an Independent Arts Award (IAA) from Maryland State Arts Council.  She has poems forthcoming in Bay to Ocean Journal, The Storms, and Cimarron Review.