Tara Conklin
Writing Coach
Tara Conklin is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, personal essays, and short stories. Her books have been selected by Read with Jenna, the Today Show Book Club, Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, as a No.1 IndieNext Pick and other accolades. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She is based in Seattle.
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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.
‘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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