Tara Wohlberg was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada. Vancouver-based since 1993, she is a poet, lyricist and freelance writer. A finalist in the City of Westminster (UK) Poetry Competition, she participated in the inaugural Booming Ground writer’s community at UBC, and has been published in the Globe and Mail and Vancouver Sun newspapers, as well as MacLean’s, Clavier and Opus magazines. In addition to her classical music expertise (BMus, Brandon University, MA in Arts Criticism, Music Specialist, City University, London, UK), her voracious curiosity inspires writing in all genres – from programme notes to obituaries.

Her lyrics for Canadian composer Stephen Chatman are published by ECSPublishing (including cycles Due East, Due West and Due South), Oxford University Press and Cypress Choral Music. Their comic opera Choir Practice was premiered by UBC Opera in 2015.

Their collaboration Love Songs, a song cycle for notable Canadian baritone Tyler Duncan and Australia’s Freshwater Trio, received a celebrated world premiere at MusicFest in Vancouver. The US premiere took place at Merkin Hall in New York City, and a recording will be released autumn of 2025.

Wohlberg’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season award, won 2nd Prize in The 2009 Writers’ Collective Poetry Prize (Canada), and appeared in Hudson View (NY). She was the founder and editor of the online poetry journal Cede Poetry. Her chapbook, Cold Surely Takes the Wood, based on excerpts from her grandmother’s diaries, was published by David Zieroth’s Alfred Gustav Press.

She currently divides her time between poetry manuscripts and lyrics in a paradise of imagination within her garden.