Tara Laskowski, author of "The Weekend Retreat"
TARA LASKOWSKI is the author of the suspense novels The Mother Next Door, which was called a \u201cpolished and entertaining read\u201d by The New York Times Book Review, and One Night Gone, which won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and the Library of VA Literary awards. Her third novel The Weekend Retreat will be published in December 2023. She has also written two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has had stories published in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Mid-American Review, Barcelona Review, and the Norton anthologies Flash Fiction International and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, among others. Her Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Mystery Magazine story, \u201cThe Case of the Vanishing Professor,\u201d won the 2019 Agatha Award and her Ellery Queen\u2019s Mystery Magazine story, \u201cThe Long-Term Tenant,\u201d won the 2020 Thriller Award. Tara was the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project\u2019s Literary Awards Prize, was the longtime editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly, and is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime, where she served as vice-president of her local chapter. She occasionally reviews books at the Washington Independent Review of Books and was a former columnist there. She earned a BA in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Tara grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia with her husband, fellow mystery writer Art Taylor, and their son Dashiell.
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