About
Tara Skurtu is a poet and writer, writing coach, speaker, and translator.
A two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee and recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes, a Marcia Keach Poetry Prize, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and a Creative Writing Honors Certificate from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of the chapbook Skurtu, Romania, the full poetry collection The Amoeba Game, and the forthcoming collection Faith Farm.
Tara has fifteen years of experience leading creative seminars, and she specializes in coaching through the lens of writing and storytelling. She has presented at TEDx, CreativeMornings, and The Power of Storytelling, and at multinational corporations such as ING and Fidelity Investments. She was a member of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics team at Harvard University, and she taught creative writing and composition at Transilvania University of Brasov, Boston University, and BU’s Prison Education Program. She was also a member of the core planning and teaching team for Robert Pinsky's inaugural BU MOOC, "The Art of Poetry."
Tara is the founder of International Poetry Circle and a member of the Brooklyn Poets Board of Directors. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches poetry and coaches writers worldwide. (And she is trying hard to work on her collection of essays Don’t Ask Me Why I Live Here).