Tara Isabel Zambrano

award-winning author

About

Tara Isabel Zambrano is an award-winning writer of South Asian Indian descent. Her writing primarily explores female desire, family, parenthood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture.Her fiction has won the first prize in The Southampton Review Short Short Fiction Contest 2019, been a Finalist in Bat City Review 2018 Short Prose Contest and Mid-American Review Fineline 2018 Contest, been published in The Best Small Fiction, The Best Micro Fiction and Wigleaf Top50 series.In the recent past, Tara has served as Fiction Editor for Waxwing literary Journal. Currently, she lives in Texas, where she works as a semiconductor chip designer. During the day when she’s not debugging simulations or faulty circuits in the lab, she’s either reading books, writing stories or staring at others, not necessarily in that order.

media & interviews

• Kirkus Reviews: On Ruined a Little When We Are Born
• Mer Literary: Review by Teresa Tumminello Brader
• SmokeLong Quarterly Review
• BookPage Interview
• Short Story Today Podcast

writing

• A Brief Progression of Natural Disasters Best Micro Fiction 2020
• A Thousand Eyes, PANK, Best Small Fictions 2020
• New Old, Southampton Review Best Micro Fiction 2019
• Snowstorm, Atticus Review Best Micro Fiction 2019
• Feeding Time, Okay Donkey, Best Micro Fiction 2019
• Mumtaz in Burhanpur, Short Prose 2018 Finalist
• Alligators Barrelhouse, Nominated for Pushcart
• Ghosht Korma, SmokeLong Quarterly
• Whatever Remains, Tin House

Contact

Archive (DDOD Articles)

• Cutting To The Core: At The Rumpus
• The Masters Review
• SmokeLong Quarterly Review
• Smoke & Mirrors: Interview