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Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, and Here in Avalon, as well as the nonfiction books Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World and Self-Made: Curating Our Image from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. She is currently working on a history of magic and modernity, to be published by Forum in 2027. 

​Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, ​Granta, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. ​She blogs about theology, writing, technology, art, language, and enchantment at The Lost Word.

​Tara received her doctorate in theology from Oxford in 2017. She is a Lecturer and Visiting Research Fellow at the Catholic University of America.

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Contact: ​Tara is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
You can also reach her directly at [email protected]