Tara Whitehead Member Member since 2010

Writer, Filmmaker, Professor

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Tara Stillions Whitehead (she/her) is a filmmaker and writer concerned with elevating marginalized voices and combatting institutional and narrative violence in the film and television industry. Her collections, Blood Histories (Galileo Press), The Year of the Monster (Unsolicited Press), and They More Than Burned (forthcoming, Unsolicited Press 2027), use formal experimentation to subvert and critique hegemonic “literary” conventions.

Tara’s books have been nominated for the Aspen Words and Maya Angelou Awards. She is published in places like Fairy Tale Review, The Rupture, and HAD and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. Her essay, “The Mother Must Die and Other Lies Fairy Tales Told Me,” was selected as notable in the Best American Essays 2022 anthology, edited by Alexander Chee.

A 2024 SAFTA and VCCA fellow, Tara is Associate Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media at Messiah University.

Location:

Mechanicsburg, PA

Birthdate:

21 April

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