Tara Cheesman is a freelance book critic, National Book Critics Circle member, and part of the reading committee for the NBCC inaugural 2022 Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. She was a 2018 & 2019 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Judge. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, CrimeReads, Guernica, Vol. and other online publications. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City
