Tara Prakash
2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate
Tara Prakash is an avid reader and writer and the 2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate. Her work has been recognized in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (where she won a National Gold Medal and a National Silver Medal), National YoungArts, the New York Times, Blue Marble Review and Bow Seat's Ocean Awareness Contest. Her poem was chosen as a finalist out of over 630 entries in Hollins University’s Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. She also earned the First Class Distinction Award by the National Council of Teachers of English. Her work has appeared in Best American High School Writing, The Lumiere Review and The Daphne Review, among others. As a 2023 mentee in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program, a participant in the Iowa Young Writers' Studio and the founder of Write to Right, a non-profit that teaches writing to underserved communities, Tara is eager to bring her love of writing to youth.