Tara L Masih

Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers. She grew up within a bicultural family in the small harbor town of Northport, situated along the Long Island Sound. Because much of her time was spent on the beaches and in the woods, her writing is often set within the framework of nature, place, and diversity. MY REAL NAME IS HANNA, her bestselling first novel, won multiple awards and was translated into Slovak and Polish. She is editor of the acclaimed ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION and THE CHALK CIRCLE: INTERCULTURAL PRIZEWINNING ESSAYS (winner of 3 national book awards). Founding series editor of the annual BEST SMALL FICTIONS, her second story collection, HOW WE DISAPPEAR: NOVELLA & STORIES, received a Florida Book Award in General Fiction. www.taramasih.com