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Tara Clancy

Biography

Tara Clancy

Tara Clancy’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The New York Times Magazine and The Rumpus. She has told several stories on "The Moth Radio Hour," and has hosted their live shows in New York City and throughout the country. Her stories have also been featured on NPR’s "Snap Judgment," "Risk!" and "The Story Collider," among other programs. Tara was born and raised in Queens, and now lives in Manhattan with her wife and two sons. THE CLANCYS OF QUEENS is her first book.

Tara Clancy

Books by Tara Clancy

The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir
by Tara Clancy - Memoir, Nonfiction

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with 11-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS 172, to holding court beside Joey O’Dirt, Goiter Eddy and Roger the Dodger at her dad’s local bar, Tara leapfrogs across these varied spheres, delivering stories from each world with originality, grit and outrageous humor.