Tara Tallen
Artist

Tara Tallan began work on her science fiction story Galaxion when she was twelve. Since then she has gone on to become a serious sci-fi nut, including having spent ten years working at Canada's oldest science fiction bookstore, Bakka (now known as Bakka-Phoenix).

Tara wrote, drew, inked, lettered, and published Galaxion from 1993 to 1999, and during that time appeared at comic conventions across North America. She was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent in 1998 and the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent in 1998 and 1999. She has a prose short story published in the Bakka Anthology, alongside such science fiction luminaries as Tanya Huff, Robert J. Sawyer, and Cory Doctorow. She has also been hired for several freelance art projects, including a comic book designed to sell Spenco TM insoles (no, I am not kidding). She has had precisely no formal art school training.