Tara writes about everything from policy to pop. Her work has earned many national and state journalism awards, including Distinguished Writer honors from the Pa. Newspaper Association three times and national first-place awards from the Association for Alternative Newsmedia. Her work exploring how the media portrays violence led to a 2012 Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. A reported essay exploring the Kermit Gosnell case and its affect on abortion regulations across the country has been anthologized by CherryBomb Books. She's the author of Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe for the critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury Academic.