Tara FitzGerald is a writer, journalist, and translator based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and Literary Translation from Columbia University, and has lived and worked as a journalist in the UK, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, and Mexico. Tara is currently working on a nonfiction book about the people who live on the shores of Central Asia's dying Aral Sea—commonly referred to as one of the largest environmental disasters in the world. Read her full bio here.
It was a ritual Biko and I had performed thousands of times over the last five years, so I had no reason to think that December evening would be any different.
