Board Member Bio
Tara A. Elliott’s poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Ninth Letter, The Normal School, Cimarron Review, and Cumberland River Review, and many others. An award-winning middle school teacher, she also serves as Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, chair of the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, and host of Thursdays with ESWA. A former student of Lucille Clifton’s at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Tara has been awarded numerous grants and honors for her writing and literary outreach, including the Christine D. Sarbanes Award from MD Humanities and a Maryland Arts Council’s Independent Artist Award.
