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Tara Betts

Born: in Kankakee, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Betts was born and raised in Kankakee. She lived in Chicago for many years before moving to the East Coast to complete her Ph. D. at Binghamton University. She moved back to Chicago in 2015.

Biography: Tara Betts received her Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2014 and she taught creative writing at Rutgers University. Tara has been teaching at the university of Illinois-Chicago and as part of the MFA faculty at Chicago State University. She founded ''Girls Speak'' and has also performed in plays, including two SouthWest V-Day productions of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues at Chicago’s DuSable Museum. After winning Guild Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, she represented Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam.She also co-edited ''The Beiging of America: Personal Essays About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century'' by 2Leaf Press in 2016.


Awards:
  • -- Illinois Arts Council Fellowship

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://tarabetts.net
Tara Betts on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=tara+betts


Selected Titles

Arc and hue
ISBN: 9780981920870 OCLC: 456695203

Willow Books, Detroit : ©2009.

Break the Habit
ISBN: 9780996586436 OCLC: 978713632

 

 

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