Tara Layne grew up in New York, lived in Los Angeles for seven years, and is back. This chapter in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Her essays move between sardonic and honest, sitting with the contradictions that are easiest to avoid: the grief and the relief, the love and the exhaustion, the moment you catch yourself becoming someone you recognize from somewhere you'd rather forget. Performing. Not performing anymore. Catching myself still performing.

Her work has appeared in Hobart Pulp, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and Los Angeleno Magazine. Her debut memoir is forthcoming.