Tara Skurtu

Tara Skurtu is the author of the poetry collection The Amoeba Game and the chapbook Skurtu, Romania. The recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and two Academy of American Poets prizes, she has taught creative writing at Boston University, the BU Prison Education Program, and Transilvania University of Brașov. Tara is a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in New York, where she teaches poetry and coaches writers worldwide. Her book of poems, Faith Farm, will be published by Unbound Edition Press.