Tara McTiernan

Tara McTiernan grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent the summers of her youth on a small island in the Great South Bay on Long Island. Both Fairfield County, Connecticut and Long Island have served as the setting for her novels, Barefoot Girls and Cocktail Hour, as well as her short stories, including the collection, Earth and Air. A voracious reader known to complete a book in a single sitting as a child, Tara became well known to her hometown's librarians as she had a terrible addiction to certain books - re-reading them and continually checking them out until her parents had to be called in and limits set to the number of times she was allowed to take out a book. "Other children would like to have a chance to read this book, too," she was told to her great consternation. To this day, there are certain books Tara will not lend out to others as she has to have them on hand at all times. Although Tara started writing fiction as a child, finishing her first novel at the age of twenty-four, her work started and stalled for years due to the demands of her career in corporate office management. In spite of this, many of her short stories saw publication in literary magazines. In her early forties, she picked back up where she left off, completing her novel Barefoot Girls which was published in 2012. Tara's latest novel, Cocktail Hour, has just been released (March 2013). She lives with her husband, Ash, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Visit the author's website at www.taramctiernan.com for more information including upcoming book releases and events.