Tara Zafft has a BA from UC San Diego and Ph.D in Russian literature from the University of Bath, UK. She began writing poetry when she was thirteen, and only recently began submittingher work for publication. She has poems published in the anthology, Rumors Secrets and Lies,Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice, Write-Haus, Aether Avenue Press, The San DiegoPoetry Annual, Vita and the Woolf Literary Journal, and Dumbo Press.