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Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, 2018's Social Creature, was named a "book of the year" by The New York Times, New York's Vulture, and The Guardian. A film adaptation is in development with Lionsgate.

Her second novel, The World Cannot Give, a coming-of-age novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding school, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2022.

Her first book of nonfiction, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World--praised by The Wall Street Journal as "a bracing tour through the myriad forms of bespoke spiritualism and makeshift quasireligions springing up across America"-- appeared in 2020.

Her next work of nonfiction, Self-Made: Curating Our Image from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, will be published by Public Affairs in 2023.

She has written on religion, culture, and place for The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Economist's 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, Salon, The New Statesman, ​and The Telegraph. She is a columnist at Religion News Service, a Contributing Editor at American Purpose, and the former staff religion writer at Vox. Her fiction has appeared in ​Granta, Volume 1 Brooklyn, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, Tor.com, PANK, and more.

​She received a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, in 2017.

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