Tara Skurtu is a Boston-based poet and translator currently living in Romania, where she is a 2015-2017 Fulbright lecturer at Transilvania University of Brașov. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes, a Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her recent poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and Poetry Wales. Tara is the author of the chapbook Skurtu, Romania (Eyewear Publishing 2016), and her debut poetry collection The Amoeba Game is forthcoming by Eyewear in 2017.
