Taryn Tilton writes fiction and translates. Her novella Cherry Cherry won the 2017 Plaza Literary Prize. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Comala Haven.
She lived in Shanghai and Buenos Aires before moving to Los Angeles, where she currently resides.
Alumni Residency Fellowship at Warren Wilson College - 2018
The Plaza Literary Prize from 1888 Press - 2017
Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship at Warren Wilson College - 2014
Cherry Cherry is a novella about a young girl, Sophie, and her obsession with her best friend’s older sister in the summer before high school.
It's a time full of wonder and impossible longing, with Sophie stuck between narrowing paths, pained by possibility and the fleeting, aching beauty of being an adolescent girl.
Dogs on the Beach in Waxwing
Garden Snake in Smokelong Quarterly
A Deer's a Deer in Smokelong Quarterly