Tara Mesalik MacMahon

Tara Mesalik MacMahon, winner of the James Hearst Poetry Prize and author of the award-winning poetry collection "Barefoot Up the Mountain" also co-authors "The Adventures of Child and Gamma," a children’s fiction series, with her brother Mark Ukra. The first book in the series, "Closet of Dreams," is based on these siblings' fantastical adventures in their own childhood Closet of Dreams where Mark was “Child" and Tara was “Gamma" who always says, “When your fears disappear, your dreams appear!"