Tara Lynne Brown is a freelance writer residing in Cary, North Carolina. She has approximately 10 years of marketing experience and a strong background in residential and commercial real estate as well as direct mail. Tara Lynne virtually collaborates with businesses and non-profits across the nation in their marketing efforts through the composition of press releases, newsletters, brochures, flyers and standard marketing collateral to improve the public's perception and awareness of  her clients' products and services. She is a member of the Freelancers Union and the Association of Professional Business Writers.

She holds a B.A. from Stony Brook University where she wrote over 40 articles in a one year period for The Stony Brook Press. Tara Lynne is an avid volunteer and has accumulated over 1,500 hours of service from hospitals, festivals and non-profit writing projects.

Word Salad Poetry Magazine
Poetry published Summer 2010:
"Voracious Reader"

MUSED: BellaOnline Literary Review Magazine

Poetry published June 2010:
"Apple" and "Highway"

Poetry published March 2010:
"Climate Change"
"Untitled"
"Summer at the Cape"

Scholarship
Selected as a Contributing Writer for Melissa Bank's Workshop in Fiction at the Southampton Writer's Conference on Long Island, New York - 2009

Volunteer
Achievement award for over 700 hours of community service - 2004

The Maze
Poetry and Prose published 2003

Design
Designed winning logo for the New York State Chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America - 2002

Mark Twain Literary Contest
Poetry - First Place 1999 and 2003
Prose - Honorable Mention 2002 and 2003

Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Poetry Contest
Poetry - Honorable Mention 1999