Tara Isabella Burton's work on religion, culture, and place can be found at National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler,  The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, Intelligent Life, Smithsonian, Hazlitt, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, Conde Nast Traveller, Roads and Kingdoms, Salon, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The American Reader, Outside, and more. Her fiction has appeared at Tor.com, PANK, Shimmer, and more. She is the winner of The Spectator's 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing. She has recently completed her first novel.

She is currently a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, working on a doctorate in theology and fin de siècle French literature. 

Tara is represented by Emma Parry (US) & Rebecca Carter (UK) at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.