Tavi Taylor Black

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...

I tend to love almost anything by Salman Rushdie. Considering the feminist slant to most of my work, you wouldn't think an author like...

Some of you know I've been working on a middle grade fantasy novel called Wished Forward. With every project, I always think it's a good...

I'm excited to announce that Where Are We Tomorrow? will be released on May 31st, 2021. Preorder is available on Amazon (link button on...

When I read the bio of Abraham Verghese at the beginning of his fine novel, Cutting for Stone, I will admit had a moment of...

A friend of mine, on a celebratory election call yesterday, said, when introducing a poet, "The beauty of language is that when words...

I've decided to change my title to "favorites" instead of "best books ever". The competition is too large to lay this moniker on the few...

Keri Hulme's 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People opens with a dense bit of prose poetry. Images and sentences that leave an...

There's nothing better than falling in love with a book. How many times a year do we ache to get back into a story we've left off the...

I was asked recently, “Are all of your short stories so sad?” I had to think for a moment, remembering back over all of the stories I...

Pádraig Ó Tuama might be my favorite new person. Every podcast has me on the edge of tears---not from sadness, but from an incredulous...