Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of a Julia Ward Howe Award for her debut novel, My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories is her second collection from Press 53. She founded The Best Small Fictions series in 2015. Additional awards for her work include the Lou P. Bunce Creative Writing Award, The Ledge Magazine’s Fiction Award, a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Wigleaf Top 50 recognition, and Pushcart Prize nominations for both fiction and creative nonfiction. Tara has published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (such as Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, Night Train, The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, and The Caribbean Writer), and her essays have been read on NPR and translated into dance. A regular contributor to The Indian-American and Masala magazines, she was honored with a 2019 Inspirational Women in Literature Award from AITL Media. Media, and several national book awards including an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for her role as an editor.