TAK Erzinger

Poet

Switzerland
CH
Email: 
tania.erzinger@gmail.com
Website: 
takerzinger.wixsite.com/poet
Twitter/X: 
@ErzTak

Author's Bio

TAK Erzinger is an award-winning poet. Her collection At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press California, 2021) won the University of Indianapolis Etching Press, Whirling Prize 2021 for best nature poetry book. It was also a finalist at The International Book Awards 2022, Willow Run Book Awards and Eyelands Book Awards.  Erzinger’s forthcoming poetry collection Tourist (Sea Crow Press, Massachusetts) is due out in April 2023.

Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. She lives on the foothills of the alps in Switzerland with her husband and two cats.

 

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Tourist (Sea Crow Press, 2023)
,
At the Foot of the Mountain, poetry collection by TAK Erzinger (Floricanto Press, 2021)
,
Found: Between the Trees (Grey Borders Books, 2019)
Journals:
Beautiful Space
,
Curlew
,
Mojave Heart Review
,
Rising Phoenix Review
Prizes won: 
  • At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press 2021)FINALIST 2022 The International Book Awards
  • for Best Nature Poetry Book
  • At the Foot of the Mountain (Floricanto Press 2021) WINNER 2021 Whirling Prize, Etchings Press, The University of Indianapolis for Best Nature Poetry Book
  • At the Foot of the Mountain SHORTLISTED 2019 Eyelands Book Awards-Best unpublished poetry manuscript
  • At the Foot of the Mountain FINALIST 2020 Willow Run Book Awards Best unpublished poetry manuscript

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
John Irving, WS Merwin, Phillipa Gregory, Helen Mort, Lemn Sissay, Mary Oliver, Noah Gordon, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, James A. Mitchner, Steven Price, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Katrina Naomi, Thomas Hardy, Susan Howatch, William Boyd
What I'm reading now: 
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx
Prefers to work with: 
Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists
Fluent in: 
English, German, Spanish
Born in: 
Orlando, Winter Park
Raised in: 
Lexington, Kentucky and St. Petersburg, Florida
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Last update: May 03, 2023