Dr. Tara Zafft, writer and educator, is most recently Winner of the Moonlit Getaway Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Rumors, Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, Aether Avenue Press, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf Literary Journal, and Dumbo Press. Tara holds a BA in Russian Literature from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from the University of Bath, UK. Her work explores themes of motherhood, belonging, war, and personal and collective trauma.