Tara Laskowski's debut novel, One Night Gone, is a finalist for the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and Lefty Award, and was hailed by Tana French as a "subtly but relentlessly unsettling novel." Tara is also the author of two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders, which The Guardian named a best book of 2017. She has had stories published in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazines and in numerous anthologies and journals. She was a longtime editor of the flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly and won an Agatha Award for Best Short Story in 2019. Tara earned a B.A. in English from Susquehanna University and an M.F.A. from George Mason University. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, writer Art Taylor, and their son, Dashiell. 

Visit her website at www.TaraLaskowski.com. 

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