Tara Bray Smith

Who is Tara Bray Smith?

Tara Bray Smith is an American author.

Tara Bray Smith was born and grew up in Hawai'i, USA. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, and now lives in New York state.

She was the author of an article about Hawai'i that appeared in Granta 77: "What We Think of America." Recently, Simon & Schuster published her memoir, West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise about her mother and her mother's family in Hawaii, rooted in the diminished wealth of 19th century sugar plantations.

She's also the author of a teen novel, Betwixt, which became a pilot for The CW Television Network but was never turned into a series. The proposed series, called Betwixt and then Changelings, would have starred three teenagers who find out they are "changelings" who have the ability to protect the world from evil.