Tamara was born in the Deep South of the U.S. and spent twelve formative years in the mid- and southwest of England, where she earned her BA Creative Writing, First Class Honors from Bath Spa University. After returning to the South, she became a freelance editor to subsidize her writing – prose and poetry that reflect her multicultural upbringing and explore themes of family, loss, identity, and their reflection in the natural world. The Fruit of War: Stone and Flesh is her first published novel, and if nothing else has made her nine-year-old self very happy.