I'm a writer near Raleigh in Pittsboro, North Carolina
"Flash fiction" version
Passionate about farms, food, and finance, I'm a deadline-driven journalist, award-winning author, and poet with 20 years of professional writing experience. From starting in public relations and marketing, then working in UX content strategy and thought leadership production, content creation has been the heart of my work my entire career.
"Short story" version
I believe in designing life around one's values. As such, the core of my writing business evolves over time. By supporting people with my resume writing services as they make their next career move, I help them move closer to living around their values too. As a resume writer and former PR director, I help job seekers market themselves. I funnel my passion for local food systems and regenerative agriculture into conference and event presentations that help beekeepers and ag professionals. In addition to my writing credits, I'm a Journeyman Beekeeper and Certified Permaculture Designer. I love fostering ecologically-minded landscapes that feed bees, wildlife, and my family. Between apiaries in the Pittsboro and Bryson City areas of North Carolina, I steward more than 17 acres.
Curious how to pronounce? Tara Lynne Groth rhymes with Marilyn Moth.
Passionate about farms, food, and finance, I'm a deadline-driven journalist, award-winning author, and poet with 20 years of professional writing experience. From starting in public relations and marketing, then working in UX content strategy and thought leadership production, content creation has been the heart of my work my entire career.
"Short story" version
I believe in designing life around one's values. As such, the core of my writing business evolves over time. By supporting people with my resume writing services as they make their next career move, I help them move closer to living around their values too. As a resume writer and former PR director, I help job seekers market themselves. I funnel my passion for local food systems and regenerative agriculture into conference and event presentations that help beekeepers and ag professionals. In addition to my writing credits, I'm a Journeyman Beekeeper and Certified Permaculture Designer. I love fostering ecologically-minded landscapes that feed bees, wildlife, and my family. Between apiaries in the Pittsboro and Bryson City areas of North Carolina, I steward more than 17 acres.
Curious how to pronounce? Tara Lynne Groth rhymes with Marilyn Moth.
Award-winning author
The "novel" version
Before starting my writing business I was a registered loan officer and Realtor, a public relations director, and a marketing manager. Through my Corporate America experience, I've worked in UX content strategy, artificial intelligence product development, thought leadership, and corporate sustainability.
Learning, learning, learning
Writing services over the years
I moved to North Carolina from Long Island, New York in 2007. In 2009, I started my freelance writing business while working in marketing management. Since that time I've written for some of the world's largest brands, and helped professionals at companies large and small. My services have ranged from search engine optimization (SEO) and blog development, to content marketing, and ghostwriting books. I enjoy the variety of industries and people I help support through my writing.
Award-winning author and poet
My writing has received formal recognition for more than 20 years. I've been a finalist and prize winner in multiple WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contests, received Honorable Mention in Fiction in the Carolina Woman Writing Contest, and was twice named a semifinalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. I organized writing workshops through two groups I founded and led from 2008-2022: Triangle Writers and Asheville Writers. As a creative writer:
Freelance journalist
My bylines appear in GRIT, Produce Business, Vegetable Growers News, NextAvenue, Market Watch and more. My magazine writing ranges from reporting how to incorporate technology for agro-marketing purposes, to increasing crop yields through vertical gardening. I love learning about extraordinary people and writing about them. Among the many subjects I've interviewed, some include an artist who creates art for the blind, an Oscar nominee, and comedian Bill Burr.
Before starting my writing business I was a registered loan officer and Realtor, a public relations director, and a marketing manager. Through my Corporate America experience, I've worked in UX content strategy, artificial intelligence product development, thought leadership, and corporate sustainability.
Learning, learning, learning
- MIT - Certificate in Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World, 2025
Our workplaces and lives keep changing at accelerated rates. We need new ways to remain resilient. Understanding these challenges and effective ways of managing them allows me to help others define their leadership signature and communicate their vision in today's dynamic world. - Oregon State University - Certified Permaculture Designer, 2021
Permaculture principles are part of a whole systems approach. With a holistic perspective, I help people see and leverage connections that many others miss. - ICAgile - Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), 2019
Coaching others to higher performance and enabling leaders. - Stony Brook University - B.A., Cinema and Cultural Studies
While it may seem unrelated to my day-to-day work, I always look at how imagery and design tell a story. My degree's focus on culture also makes me hyperaware of audience perceptions, which is useful in all of the work that I do.
Writing services over the years
I moved to North Carolina from Long Island, New York in 2007. In 2009, I started my freelance writing business while working in marketing management. Since that time I've written for some of the world's largest brands, and helped professionals at companies large and small. My services have ranged from search engine optimization (SEO) and blog development, to content marketing, and ghostwriting books. I enjoy the variety of industries and people I help support through my writing.
Award-winning author and poet
My writing has received formal recognition for more than 20 years. I've been a finalist and prize winner in multiple WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contests, received Honorable Mention in Fiction in the Carolina Woman Writing Contest, and was twice named a semifinalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. I organized writing workshops through two groups I founded and led from 2008-2022: Triangle Writers and Asheville Writers. As a creative writer:
- My story collection Rose Window is forthcoming Spring 2025.
- I'm seeking a small press for my bee and nature-inspired poetry manuscript Architecture of Bees.
- I wrote the first guidebook to the Bonnaroo Music Festival, three poetry books, and a guidebook for journalists (Magazine Queries That Worked).
Freelance journalist
My bylines appear in GRIT, Produce Business, Vegetable Growers News, NextAvenue, Market Watch and more. My magazine writing ranges from reporting how to incorporate technology for agro-marketing purposes, to increasing crop yields through vertical gardening. I love learning about extraordinary people and writing about them. Among the many subjects I've interviewed, some include an artist who creates art for the blind, an Oscar nominee, and comedian Bill Burr.
Educator and mentor
As a conference speaker and workshop host I've presented at dozens of events. Some highlights include presenting top blogging practices at the now-former Times Square headquarters of the American Society of Journalists & Authors, to being invited as the keynote presenter of a multi-day writing retreat on a farm. My author marketing workshops have ranged from half-day events, to 11-week classes. I've been an education provider multiple times for Duke University's Osher Institute and Wake County Schools Lifelong Learning.
As a conference speaker and workshop host I've presented at dozens of events. Some highlights include presenting top blogging practices at the now-former Times Square headquarters of the American Society of Journalists & Authors, to being invited as the keynote presenter of a multi-day writing retreat on a farm. My author marketing workshops have ranged from half-day events, to 11-week classes. I've been an education provider multiple times for Duke University's Osher Institute and Wake County Schools Lifelong Learning.
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Volunteer projects
Ongoing charitable contributions are important to me and a regular part of my life. In the summer of 2012, I spent a week with 10 strangers in an off-grid cabin in Maine working with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service repairing frost-heaved boardwalks. I've donated time and resources to arts festivals including Raleigh's SPARKcon and Artsplosure, Holly Springs' arts festival, Durham's Full Frame Film Festival, and many more. In the summer of 2022 I helped remove invasive species at a Chapel Hill nature preserve. 3 fun facts about me
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Repairing boardwalks in Maine on a week-long Volunteer Vacation with the American Hiking Society.
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Writing memberships
It's a professional achievement to become a member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). ASJA is an invitation-only network of nearly 1,200 independent working writers. I'm so proud to have been a member from 2012-2022 and can't say enough great things about this organization. As my writing offerings have changed with market demands and seasons of life, I decided not to re-new my membership and may join again some day.
I'm currently or have been a member of the American Society of Business Publication Editors, Atlanta Writers Club (previously Vice President of Marketing), The Authors Guild, Freelancers Union, North Carolina Poetry Society, North Carolina Writers' Network, Triangle User Experience Professionals, Winston-Salem Writers, Writers Group of the Triad.
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Interviews with me
HiveTracks - Beekeeper of the Month March 2025
WOW! Women on Writing - Top 10 Finalist Winter Flash Fiction Contest
The Writing Desk Blog - Author interview all about freelancing.
WOW! Women on Writing - 2nd Place Winner Summer Flash Fiction Contest
Writers Words Radio - Radio guest on wART 95.5 FM.
AND CO - Freelancers Share Their Words of Wisdom
WOW! Women on Writing - Top 10 Finalist Winter Flash Fiction Contest
The Writing Desk Blog - Author interview all about freelancing.
WOW! Women on Writing - 2nd Place Winner Summer Flash Fiction Contest
Writers Words Radio - Radio guest on wART 95.5 FM.
AND CO - Freelancers Share Their Words of Wisdom
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