Tara A. Elliott’s poems have appeared in The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, Wildness,  The American Journal of Poetry, and Stirring among others.  Tara teaches English Language Arts as a middle grades teacher on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  As the founder and director of Salisbury's Poetry Week, further outreach includes her role as President of the Eastern Shore Writers Association, and co-chair of the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference.  As the 2018 recipient of the Maryland Humanities' Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Award, she has been honored twice by the Wicomico County Public Library as Educator Luminary (2016) and  Adult Luminary (2020) for the Light of Literacy Awards.   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 recipient from Maryland State Arts Council.   She has poems forthcoming in Gargoyle and Ninth Letter.