Tarla Kramer grew up in Adelaide and now lives in the Flinders Ranges. Since graduating from Tabor's Creative Writing Program in 2019, she has had poetry published in InDaily, Cordite, Borderlands and Inscribe. Her manuscript Odds & Sods was one of three winning collections published in Friendly Street New Poets 21 in 2020. Her chapbook poems for the non-compliant was published by Ginninderra Press in 2022. Tango of the Widow is her first full-length collection. When not sitting in her writing hut staring out the window, she can be found or staring at screens in her various day jobs, or staring out of the guard's van on the Pichi Richi Railway.