Short bios for media use:
Book author and poet
Tara Lynne Groth writes short fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and one of her poems was selected to inspire two community art installations in 2014. She received honorable mention in fiction in the 2015 Carolina Woman Writing Contest and was a semifinalist for the 2015 and 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize. She is an alumna of the Southampton Writers Conference.
Resume writer
Tara Lynne Groth has written resumes and cover letters for more than a decade. She helps individuals concisely tell their professional stories, whether they're proactively moving into a new career or in crisis mode with an unexpected job loss.
Journalist
Tara Lynne Groth's articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers since she was 17. She's the author of Magazine Queries That Worked: Build Income and Authority With Freelance Journalism. She has written for trade and consumer publications including GRIT, Produce Business, Blue Ridge Country, Durham News, and more.
Content strategist and UX writer
Tara Lynne Groth is a content strategist in user experience design (UXD). Her background in digital content spans SEO content, blog development, and content marketing. She speaks at conferences and teaches classes on best blogging practices and digital marketing. Before shifting into UX she was a marketing manager and public relations director.
How to pronounce
Tara Lynne Groth rhymes with Marilyn Moth.
Long bio
Tara Lynne Groth is a writer in North Carolina and grew up on Long Island, New York. Academically, Tara Lynne left high school a year early to participate in a program at Johnson & Wales University's Providence, Rhode Island campus called EEP. The Early Enrollment Program allows high school seniors to live on campus and start college while simultaneously satisfying credits for high school. She studied advertising and marketing communications and minored in career writing and literature. She also maxed out her course schedule and completed both her freshman and sophomore years during her first year of college before graduating high school. She transferred to Stony Brook University and maxed out her course load again. She was 19 when she received her bachelor degree in cinema and cultural studies.
Professionally, Tara Lynne began editing contracts as a teenager through her high school job at a hardwood flooring company on Long Island. Later, as a public relations director, she began designing and writing advertising copy for real estate firm where she also held her real estate license and was a registered loan officer and notary public. With an eye for a gentler climate and affordable living, she relocated from Long Island to North Carolina in 2007 and worked as a marketing manager for a commercial real estate company. She wrote newsletters and property marketing copy at work, and started moonlighting as a freelancer in 2009. After reaching multiple financial goals through freelance writing, Tara Lynne resigned from real estate marketing in 2010.
Personally, writing short fiction and poetry bring her the most fulfillment as a writer. She received a scholarship in fiction in 2009 to attend the Southampton Writers Conference, and received honorable mention in fiction in the 2015 Carolina Woman Writing Contest. She has written two unpublished collections of interconnected short stories and is actively seeking a literary agent.
Outside of writing, Tara Lynne loves spending time with her non-writer husband, tending to their chickens, quail, and senior dog, growing rare foods in her garden, checking on her bee hives, and walking the trails she built on their 5-acre plot in Chatham County, North Carolina. She is a foodie and loves finding doughnut shops whenever traveling to new places.
Read about Tara Lynne's writing awards.
Fun facts
Tara Lynne is a:
Sample of past media appearances and speaking engagements
Research Triangle Park High School - Visiting poet (February 2021)
95.5FM Writers Words Radio (October 2016)
Author Marketing Starts Before Your Book - Wake County Public Libraries (July 2016)
Freelancing for Digital and Print - Blue Ridge Writers Conference (April 2016)
Make Your Living Writing - Triangle Sisters in Crime Workshop (March 2016)
Chatham Middle School - Career Day Speaker (March 2016)
Freelancing and SEO - Guest Speaker at Wake-Up Wednesday (February 2016)
Get Published Now - Speaker at Rolesville Young Writers Conference (October 2015)
Poetry Writing - Wake County Libraries (October 2015)
Mills Park Middle School - Visiting Poet (December 2014)
Writing Words that Word - Guest Speaker at Raleigh Public Relations Society Luncheon (March 2014)
Best Blogging Practices - Guest Speaker at ASJA headquarters in Times Square (October 2013)
Salisbury Post (June 2013)
Great Schools
Pulse (May 2011)
Blue Ridge Outdoors (May 2011)
Murfreesboro Post (January 2011)
Skype Interview on FOX17 (January 2011)
Cary News - Interview (December 2010)
Book author and poet
Tara Lynne Groth writes short fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and one of her poems was selected to inspire two community art installations in 2014. She received honorable mention in fiction in the 2015 Carolina Woman Writing Contest and was a semifinalist for the 2015 and 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize. She is an alumna of the Southampton Writers Conference.
Resume writer
Tara Lynne Groth has written resumes and cover letters for more than a decade. She helps individuals concisely tell their professional stories, whether they're proactively moving into a new career or in crisis mode with an unexpected job loss.
Journalist
Tara Lynne Groth's articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers since she was 17. She's the author of Magazine Queries That Worked: Build Income and Authority With Freelance Journalism. She has written for trade and consumer publications including GRIT, Produce Business, Blue Ridge Country, Durham News, and more.
Content strategist and UX writer
Tara Lynne Groth is a content strategist in user experience design (UXD). Her background in digital content spans SEO content, blog development, and content marketing. She speaks at conferences and teaches classes on best blogging practices and digital marketing. Before shifting into UX she was a marketing manager and public relations director.
How to pronounce
Tara Lynne Groth rhymes with Marilyn Moth.
Long bio
Tara Lynne Groth is a writer in North Carolina and grew up on Long Island, New York. Academically, Tara Lynne left high school a year early to participate in a program at Johnson & Wales University's Providence, Rhode Island campus called EEP. The Early Enrollment Program allows high school seniors to live on campus and start college while simultaneously satisfying credits for high school. She studied advertising and marketing communications and minored in career writing and literature. She also maxed out her course schedule and completed both her freshman and sophomore years during her first year of college before graduating high school. She transferred to Stony Brook University and maxed out her course load again. She was 19 when she received her bachelor degree in cinema and cultural studies.
Professionally, Tara Lynne began editing contracts as a teenager through her high school job at a hardwood flooring company on Long Island. Later, as a public relations director, she began designing and writing advertising copy for real estate firm where she also held her real estate license and was a registered loan officer and notary public. With an eye for a gentler climate and affordable living, she relocated from Long Island to North Carolina in 2007 and worked as a marketing manager for a commercial real estate company. She wrote newsletters and property marketing copy at work, and started moonlighting as a freelancer in 2009. After reaching multiple financial goals through freelance writing, Tara Lynne resigned from real estate marketing in 2010.
Personally, writing short fiction and poetry bring her the most fulfillment as a writer. She received a scholarship in fiction in 2009 to attend the Southampton Writers Conference, and received honorable mention in fiction in the 2015 Carolina Woman Writing Contest. She has written two unpublished collections of interconnected short stories and is actively seeking a literary agent.
Outside of writing, Tara Lynne loves spending time with her non-writer husband, tending to their chickens, quail, and senior dog, growing rare foods in her garden, checking on her bee hives, and walking the trails she built on their 5-acre plot in Chatham County, North Carolina. She is a foodie and loves finding doughnut shops whenever traveling to new places.
Read about Tara Lynne's writing awards.
Fun facts
Tara Lynne is a:
- Licensed motorcycle rider. Ask her what she rides.
- Third generation backyard chicken farmer.
- North Carolina State Certified Beekeeper.
Sample of past media appearances and speaking engagements
Research Triangle Park High School - Visiting poet (February 2021)
95.5FM Writers Words Radio (October 2016)
Author Marketing Starts Before Your Book - Wake County Public Libraries (July 2016)
Freelancing for Digital and Print - Blue Ridge Writers Conference (April 2016)
Make Your Living Writing - Triangle Sisters in Crime Workshop (March 2016)
Chatham Middle School - Career Day Speaker (March 2016)
Freelancing and SEO - Guest Speaker at Wake-Up Wednesday (February 2016)
Get Published Now - Speaker at Rolesville Young Writers Conference (October 2015)
Poetry Writing - Wake County Libraries (October 2015)
Mills Park Middle School - Visiting Poet (December 2014)
Writing Words that Word - Guest Speaker at Raleigh Public Relations Society Luncheon (March 2014)
Best Blogging Practices - Guest Speaker at ASJA headquarters in Times Square (October 2013)
Salisbury Post (June 2013)
Great Schools
Pulse (May 2011)
Blue Ridge Outdoors (May 2011)
Murfreesboro Post (January 2011)
Skype Interview on FOX17 (January 2011)
Cary News - Interview (December 2010)
Headshots
Book cover images
Her most recent book, a guide for freelance journalists, released in June 2017.
Internet-friendly resolutions:
Magazine Queries That Worked (2017)
This is Paris (2011)
Bare Feet on the Dashboard (2011)
Missed Connections (2011)
Bonnaroo Guidebook (2010)
High res - contact me