Tavi Taylor Black

It's been an intense couple of years for everyone and sometimes it feels like, in the midst of everything horrible going on in the world...

My friend, Megan Doney, has lived through a school shooting. This was over ten years ago at the New River Community College, but it still...

The characters in my debut novel were, for the most part, based on real women who I toured with years ago. Each of the characters (other...

Last Mother’s Day our household decided to do a device-free day. Just one twenty-four-hour period that our small family would spend...

If you're a writer, you know rejection. It happens constantly and we need to find a way to handle it. Ideally, we find healthy methods to...

Have you read Where Are We Tomorrow and wondered how I came up with the ideas for the book? Do you wonder about writers' habits? I...

I would have never guessed that I was someone who would enjoy hosting a podcast. When my friend and writer, Christine Junge, asked if I...

It is an honor to have received a second finalist medal, this one for the American Fiction Awards in the General Fiction category. In...

If you haven't already picked up a copy (or even if you have, maybe your friend needs one?), you can enter the Goodreads Giveaway running...

This is me celebrating as I've signed another contract with my current publisher for my next novel, Serabelle. Set on the rocky Maine...

Due to an emergency, we have rescheduled this interview. I'll be joining Leah Young, writer, bookstore owner, and fellow Lesley...

If you're local to Vashon or the Seattle area, please join me on June 26th for an evening at Snapdragon Bakery & Cafe's Black Cat Cabaret...

As I await the launch of my debut novel in less than a week, my focus turns to my next project. My historical novel, Serabelle, follows...

Where Are We Tomorrow? has been awarded a finalist medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It's been many years since the...

Social Media. Instagram. Twitter. For those of us who grew up with rotary dial phones, it can be an uncomfortable world. I was a hold-out...

I've always been the kind of artist that is interested in many forms, many genres--all of the beauty and tragedy out there. I was a...

My short story "Dive" about a freediver in the Bahamas is out today in Levee Magazine. I researched the story by going diving with a...

I studied Ann Patchett's Bel Canto while writing Where Are We Tomorrow? as a guide for how to successfully write an ensemble piece. I...

When I started my middle grade novel, it was just a fun project, something for my daughter and me to do during lockdown. Many of the...

Frank Conroy's Body & Soul is one of those books that stays with you in images, in feeling. Often, I will not remember exact plot...