TARA CONKLIN has worked as a litigator in the New York and London offices of a major corporate law firm and now writes fiction full time. She received a bachelor s degree in history from Yale University, a law degree from New York University, and a Master of Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University. Tara s fiction has appeared in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe. Born in St. Croix, she now lives with her family in Seattle.