Wren Tuatha

Poet

Ithaca, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Poet, collagist, teacher and screenwriter Wren Tuatha is author of Thistle and Brilliant (Finishing Line Press). She's founding director of Ithaca Poetry Center; editor of Califragile (journal of social justice and climate change). She was Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center. Wren received her MFA at Goddard College and attended Community of Writers. She studied Education at University of Louisville, and Film, Poetry, and Gay and Lesbian Studies at Towson University. She received grants to perform her poetry from Towson University's Women's Center and Office of Diversity. Her writing has appeared in The Cafe Review, Silk Road, Canary, Sierra Nevada Review, Peacock Journal, Coachella Review, Baltimore Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Loch Raven Review, Clover, Lavender Review, and Bangalore Review, among others. A survivor of California's #CampFire, her work appears in California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, edited by Molly Fisk. She's a frequent guest on various KZFR programs. Wren and her partner, author/activist C.T. Butler, escaped the Camp Fire burn zone, now herding their rescue goats among the Finger Lakes of New York.

Writers Retreats: 

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Street Press, 2020)
Book:
Thistle and Brilliant (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
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Belle Reve Literary Journal
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Clover, A Literary Rag
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Danse Macabre
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Flumes
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Halfway Down the Stairs
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January Review
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Kaleidoscope
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Loch Raven Review
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Midnight Circus
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Paddock Review
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Picaroon Poetry
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Poems-For-All
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The Birds We Piled Loosely
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The Blotter
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The Coachella Review
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The Lake
Prizes won: 

(Always a strangely butch bridesmaid...)

Nominated for Pushcart Prize by San Pedro River Review for "Mandy finds her place," 2021//Shortlisted, Driftwood Press Poetry Prize, 2020//Shortlisted, Mary Blinn Poetry Prize, 2020//Shortlisted, Disquiet Literary Prize, 2020//Semi-finalist, New Women's Voices 2020, for Thistle and Brilliant, published by Finishing Line Press//2nd Place, Poetry 99 Contest, Chico News and Review, 2020//

Semi-finalist, Jack Grape Poetry Prize, Cultural Weekly, 2019//

Nominated for Best of the Net, 2018//

Honorable Mention, Poetry 99 Contest, Chico News and Review//

Young Authors Award for Poetry, Louisville's Courier Journal//

First Prize, Slam Poetry Contest, Grub Street//

Honorable Mention, Baltimore Women's Times

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil, Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy, Citizen by Claudia Rankine

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Celtic American, Feminist, Irish American, LGBTQ, White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Lexington, KY
Kentucky
Raised in: 
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
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Last update: Sep 26, 2023