Tara Ison
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Ross-Blakley Hall 216 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Tara Ison is the author of three novels: "The List" (Scribner), "A Child out of Alcatraz" (Faber & Faber), a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and "Rockaway" (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press), featured as one of the "Best Books of Summer" in O, The Oprah Magazine, July 2013. "Ball," a short story collection, was published in 2015, and her collection of essays, "Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies," was the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award winner for Creative Nonfiction.
"At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf," a novel of a young Jewish girl in hiding in WWII Vichy France, will be published in February 2023.
Her short fiction, essays, poetry and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Salon, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Nerve.com, Black Clock, TriQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, The Santa Monica Review, Publishers Weekly, The Week, LA Weekly, O, the Oprah Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous anthologies. She is also the co-writer of the cult film "Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead."
She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2020 and 2008, several Yaddo fellowships, residencies at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland and the Cill Rialaig Arts Project in Ireland, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study, a COLA Individual Artists grant, Brandeis National Women's Committee Award, a Thurber House Fiction Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, the Simon Blattner Fellowship from Northwestern University, and a California Arts Council Artists' Fellowship Award.
Ison received her MFA in fiction and literature from Bennington College. She has taught fiction and screenwriting at Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Goddard College, Antioch University, University of California, Riverside’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, and Bennington College. She is currently professor of fiction in Arizona State University’s creative writing program.
M.F.A. Fiction and Literature, Bennington College
- Tara Ison. The Biggest Cross in the Western Hemisphere. Black Clock #14 (0).
Courses
2025 Spring
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ENG 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
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ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
ENG 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
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ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
ENG 598 | Special Topics |
ENG 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
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ENG 352 | Short Story |
ENG 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ENG 598 | Special Topics |
ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
2022 Spring
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ENG 498 | Pro-Seminar |
ENG 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
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ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
ENG 598 | Special Topics |
ENG 563 | Forms of Fiction |
2021 Spring
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ENG 593 | Applied Project |
ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
2020 Spring
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ENG 593 | Applied Project |
ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
2019 Fall
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ENG 593 | Applied Project |
ENG 288 | Beginning Workshop Fiction |
ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
- Tara Ison. Literary Lingo. Antioch UNiversity Los Angeles MFA Residency (Dec 2011).
- Tara Ison. Maps For Storytellers. University of California Riverside, Palm Desert. MFA in Creative Writing Program (Jun 2011).
- Tara Ison. Maps for Storytellers. Desert Nights, Rising Stars: The ASU Writers Conference (Feb 2011).
- Antioch University Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing Program, Reading (2011 - Present)
- Creative Writing Portfolio Review Committee, Reader (2011 - 2011)
- Homecoming Committee, Committee member (2011 - 2011)
- MFA Comprehensive exams, Reader (2011 - 2011)
- Randall and Susan McCraw Helms Homecoming Writing contest, Fiction Judge (2011 - 2011)
- Jules Anatole Scholarship in Creative Writing Contest, Judge (2011 - 2011)
- MFA Applications, reader (2011 - 2011)
- Project Humanities Writing Contest on Place, Judge (2011 - 2011)