can she be stopped?
What people are saying about Montreal’s most dangerous poet.
Indigenous story time write-up in the Westmount Independent
Featuring probably my best pull quote ever: “I love writing memoir. I really like talking about myself, having the opportunity to talk about myself.”
Audiobook review by Naomi of Consumed by Ink.
“Tara McGowan-Ross is clearly a smart, capable woman but she can’t seem to stay away from trouble; much of it is trouble she makes for herself.”
Interview with Kevin Andrew Heslop for the Miramichi Reader
Miramichi Reader, November 28, 2023
My husband’s a painter.
Mm.
And he talks about how a painting is not just a snapshot of where you are as an artist; it’s a record of you becoming a better artist — that’s why you start with broad strokes and go down to details. You’re changing as you’re making it.
See also: You’re going to change as you’re doing it — on art and becoming, on Forget the Box.
CBC books feature of NOTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT
CBC, November 1, 2022
“Not be a LinkedIn hater but whenever I go on there, I'm like: Do you know we are all going to die?”
CBC books interview with Nikki Manfredi.
October 30, 2022.
Tara McGowan-Ross says she was just trying to write "an easy-read hot-girl memoir" when "all of this stuff about Nietzsche and the economy crept in."
Weston Prize coverage in Zoomer magazine
“Tara McGowan-Ross unravels history and present in raw, unflinching prose that is at once funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical.”
Review of NOTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT by Ollie Ander
Dec 23, 2021.
Tara McGowan-Ross has a narrative voice I cannot resist.
Anglo authors, gender, sexual & racial diversity at forefront of Montreal lit event
A wealth of work by emerging and established authors is being showcased at this year’s Read Quebec Holiday Book Fair.
Cover feature with the Montreal Review of Books by Roxane Hudon
Montreal Review of Books, November 12, 2021
“I am not interested in not being a freak,” emphasizes Tara McGowan-Ross.
Full Montreal Review of Books cover feature issue.
57 works of Canadian nonfiction coming out in fall 2021
CBC Books
Posted: Aug 19, 2021 3:35 PM ET | Last Updated: August 24
Here are the works of Canadian nonfiction coming out this fall we can't wait to read.
Nothing Will Be Different
CBC Books
Posted: Jul 28, 2021 4:53 PM ET | Last Updated: August 27
A book by Tara McGowan-Ross
Mi'kmaw artist hosts Indigenous literature book club at Mile End's Drawn and Quarterly
CBC News: Montreal
Jennifer Yoon · Posted: Jan 23, 2019 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23, 2019
Tara McGowan-Ross invites Montrealers to explore vast world of Indigenous books