Tasha Cotter

Poet, Fiction Writer

Menlo Park, CA

California US

Website:

www.tashacotter.com

Twitter/X:

@TashCotter

Author's Bio

Tasha Cotter's third collection of poetry Astonishments will be released in 2020 with FutureCycle Press. Her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Thrush. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Bluegrass Writers Studio, she is included in the 2018-2019 Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau. Her novel Us, in Pieces (with Christopher Green) was released in July 2019. She makes her home in Menlo Park, California. She is the past president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Education:

Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University MFA

Writers Retreats:

Kentucky Book Festival

Literary agent:

Alice Speilburg

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Astonishments (FutureCycle Press, 2020)

The Aqua Notebook (Anaphora Literary Press, 2018)

Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016)

Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013)

That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Captain Lands in Paradise by Sarah Manguso, Thunderbird by Dorothea Lasky, Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey, Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Glasgow

Raised in:

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Last update: Dec 05, 2019