About Tara

Tara Prakash is the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate Runner-Up and the Youth Poet Laureate of the United States South. She also holds the titles of inaugural Maryland Youth Poet Laureate and 2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate and is the author of Memory Map (Finishing Line Press). A Pushcart Prize nominee, Tara is a three-time National YoungArts winner and two-time Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold and Silver Medalist (as well as an American Voices Medalist). Her work has been recognized by the New York Times, Princeton University, the National Council of Teachers of English, and Narrative Magazine, and has appeared in Best American High School Writing, Blue Marble Review, and The Kathmandu Post, among others. She has performed at The Kennedy Center, the National Press Club, the Smithsonian Institution, and other venues.

 

Tara is an incoming freshman at Princeton University.