Tara Maher is an accomplished aviation insider turned novelist who incorporates a “sky-bound” character into everything she writes. Before putting her pen to the page, she spent over fifteen years working for a commercial airline as a trainer, teaching emergency management to future cabin crew, and as a line flight attendant. Her sky days gave Tara a rich landscape for future story settings, multicultural sensitivity, and the ability to escape into and learn from the hundreds of books abandoned in seatback pockets.
Tara is a proud member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), a Chicago Writers Association (CWA) member, and a frequent student of Chicagoland’s StoryStudio. She serves on the Off Campus Writer’s Workshop of Chicago (OCWW) board as the Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, socially connecting other writers and partnering with other Chicagoland writers’ organizations. Recently, she enjoyed supporting fellow OCWW members as a selected Developmental Editor for the organization’s latest anthology, Meaningful Conflicts: The Art of Friction.
Before her sky days, Tara grew up in Edina, Minnesota, and received her B.A. in Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She’s settled in Chicago’s North Shore with her pilot husband, two children, and fur baby, Saylor the Sheepadoodle. She is a lover of the sky and sea, a fan of dark chocolate and coffee, believes kindness is essential, and has a no-grit, no-pearl outlook.
