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Tara McGowan-Ross

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaq writer, editor, and multidisciplinary artist, originally from Toronto. She holds a BA in philosophy from Concordia University. Now based in Montreal, she is the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a critic of experimental, independent Montreal theatre for BroadwayWorld, and was formerly an editor at Insomniac Press. McGowan-Ross is the author of two genre-bending poetry collections, Girth ¹ 1 McGowan-Ross, Tara. Girth. Insomniac Press, 2016.  and Scorpion Season ² 2 McGowan-Ross, Tara. Scorpion Season. Insomniac Press, 2019.  . Her poetry has also appeared in Best Canadian Poetry. Nothing Will Be Different, McGowan-Ross’s first full-length non-fiction work, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2022.  

Books by Tara McGowan-Ross

Tara McGowan-Ross

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Nothing Will Be Different

Body dysmorphia, Memoir, Mi’kmaq, Montreal, Poetry

• 1 McGowan-Ross, Tara. Girth. Insomniac Press, 2016.
• 2 McGowan-Ross, Tara. Scorpion Season. Insomniac Press, 2019.