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Tara Skurtu is a Boston-based poet, writer, teacher of creative writing and poetry, and public speaker. Tara is a two-time Fulbright grantee and the recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in poetry. She's the author of the book The Amoeba Game, translated as Jocul de-a amiba.Tara currently lives in Bucharest. We chatted over coffee about the fear of writing and editing, how to get unstuck when you're not feeling creative, great poets, and one of Tara's favorite objects in the world.