Tara Conklin
Writing Coach
Tara Conklin is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been selected by the Today Show Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, and as a No.1 Indie Next Pick and Amazon Best Book of the Month. Tara’s debut novel, The House Girl, was a New York Times bestseller, translated into eight languages. Her second novel, The Last Romantics, also became an instant New York Times bestseller and was selected by Jenna Bush Hager as the inaugural read for the first-ever Today Show Book Club. Her latest novel, Community Board, is a recommended read of Vanity Fair, Barnes & Noble, and Kirkus Reviews. Tara was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Bristol Short Story Prize. Her writing has appeared in This is the Place: Women Writing About Home, as well as in Vogue, National Geographic, Entertainment Weekly and LitHub. She has a decade of experience in coaching, ghostwriting and in-person teaching, and holds a BA in History from Yale University, a Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law, and an MA in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University.
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Tara Conklin is a writer and former lawyer whose first novel, The House Girl (William Morrow), was a New York Times bestseller, a #1 IndieNext pick, a Target book club pick, and has been translated into eight languages. Her second novel, The Last Romantics (William Morrow) was published in February 2019 to wide acclaim. An instant New York Times bestseller, The Last Romantics was a Barnes & Noble Book Club pick, IndieNext pick, and was selected by Jenna Bush Hager as the inaugural read for the Today Show Book Club. Her latest novel Community Board was published in 2023 and described by Kirkus Reviews as ‘a heartening look at a community whose people realize they’re better together than alone.’
The recipient of an Artist Trust grant, Tara’s writing has appeared in Vogue, National Geographic, Entertainment Weekly, LitHub and elsewhere. Before turning to fiction, Tara worked for an international human rights organization and at corporate law firms in London and New York. She was born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and grew up in western Massachusetts. Now based in Seattle, Tara has 10+ years experience in coaching, ghost-writing and in-person teaching.
Tara is mom to three amazing kids and one very lazy dog. In her free time, she loves to hike in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, practice yoga, cook meals that her children probably won’t eat, and read read read.
Tara’s Genres
- Contemporary Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Women’s Fiction
‘Writing welcomes the late bloomer. Every bump along the road makes you wiser and your writing richer. As a wonderful friend once said to me: if you write, you are a writer. So keep writing.’
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