Taryn Tilton recently finished her first novel, Volcada, a story about connection and control set in Buenos Aires. At MacDowell, she revisited a manuscript about looking for a dead friend's ghost, which explores destructive plasticity and grief as labor. Her novella, Cherry Cherry, won the 2017 Plaza Literary Prize, and her flash fiction can be found in Waxwing and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Taryn Tilton
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Studios
Calderwood
Taryn Tilton worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…