Tanya Grae
Tanya Grae | |
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| Born | Sumter, South Carolina |
| Occupation | Poet, editor, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Rollins College (BA); Bennington College (MFA); Florida State University (PhD) |
| Notable works | Undoll |
| Notable awards | Julie Suk Award Florida Book Award |
| Website | |
| www | |
Tanya Grae (born 1970) is an American poet and essayist, whose debut collection Undoll was awarded the Julie Suk Award[1] and a Florida Book Award[2] and was a National Poetry Series finalist.[3] Her poems and essays have been widely published in literary journals, including Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and The Massachusetts Review. Grae was born in Sumter, South Carolina, while her father was stationed at Shaw AFB.[4] She grew up traveling the United States as her father relocated for the military every few years and often writes about those early experiences.[5] Her family is from Nashville, Tennessee and is of Irish, Dutch, and Cherokee descent.[6] Her primary themes often revolve around the natural world, the American Southeast, womanhood, girlhood, matrilineal history, domesticity, and feminism.[7]
Grae attended Rollins College and then earned her MFA at Bennington College.[8] While completing her PhD at Florida State University, she received several awards including the Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship[9] and the 2018 John McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Prize.[10]
She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]- Undoll. YesYes Books. 2019. ISBN 978-1-9369-1953-6.
In Anthology
- Best New Poets 2019. Meridian/University of Virginia Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0-9975-6233-0.
- Borderlands & Crossroads: Writing the Motherland. Meridian/University of Virginia Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-7725-8024-2.
Selected poems
[edit]- "Oblation", Poetry Daily, 2020, republication
- "As Faithful as His Options", Missouri Review, 2019
- "In Elixir" and "Rewind", Post Road, 2017
- "Lethe", AGNI, July 2016, AAP Award 2018
- "Mating Season", AGNI, July 2016
- "Undolled", The Adroit Journal, Winter 2016
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2019 Julie Suk Award, Best Poetry Book Published by a Literary Press (for Undoll)
- 2019 Florida Book Award (for Undoll)
- 2018 John McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Prize
- 2017 National Poetry Series Finalist
- 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize
- 2010 Arden Goettling Academy of American Poets Prize
References
[edit]- ^ "Julie Suk Award 2019". Jacar Press. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ ""2019 Winners"". Florida Book Awards. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ ""Announcing The Winners Of The 2017 National Poetry Series!"". National Poetry Series. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ "Author personal website". tanyagrae.com. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
- ^ ""Conversations With Contributors: Tanya Grae"". The Adroit Journal. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ ""Conversations With Contributors: Tanya Grae"". The Adroit Journal. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ ""UNDOLL, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez"". Heavy Feather Review. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 Jan 2020.
- ^ ""POEM OF THE WEEK"". The Missouri Review. University of Missouri. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ^ ""Tanya Grae and Christopher Michaels win Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship"". Florida State University English Department. Florida State University. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ "FSU Creative Writing Graduate Profiles". Retrieved May 16, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- Poets from Florida
- Poets from Tennessee
- 21st-century American poets
- American feminist writers
- American women poets
- Southern United States literature
- 1970 births
- People from Sumter, South Carolina
- American essayists
- Rollins College alumni
- Poets from South Carolina
- Bennington College alumni
- Florida State University faculty
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women writers
- American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent