Tavi Taylor Black

Tavi Taylor Black earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University in Cambridge. In the years following her graduation, Tavi created a collection of short stories, Crazy Happy. Several stories from the collection were shortlisted for prizes, including the Fish One Page Prize, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Works Competition and the Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. Other stories have appeared in Alligator Juniper and Opium Magazine online. Tavi’s debut novel Where Are We Tomorrow? was awarded the 2022 Nancy Pearl Book Award, was a finalist in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards, and a finalist in the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature. Tavi lives on Vashon Island where she is finishing up the second in a series of middle-grade fantasy novels. She is currently in graduate school at the University of Washington, studying Library Science.