Tara Grover Smith, award-winning screenwriter, is currently on the festival circuit with her short film, The Joymaker. She was a 2014 Fresh Ink playwright contest winner with Blue Room Theater. Along with a co-writer, she was a semifinalist in the 2016 Scriptapalooza TV pilot contest for ‘Roses,’ which was optioned. She started a national and international current affairs magazine, named one of ten best new magazines in 2012 by Library Journal.