Tana Jean Welch

Poet

Tallahassee, FL
Florida US
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Author's Bio

Tana Jean Welch is the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) and Latest Volcano (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016). Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, and in journals including The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review. Her scholarship on contemporary American poetry has been published in Literature and Medicine, MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she currently lives in Tallahassee where she is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
In Parachutes Descending (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
,
Latest Volcano (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016)
Prizes won: 

2016 Florida Book Award
2015 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Fresno, CA
California
Raised in: 
Clovis, CA
California
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Last update: Sep 11, 2023