Wendy Chin-Tanner | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. and M.A., English Literature, Churchill College, Cambridge; MPhil and ABD/PhD in Social and Political Science, Darwin College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Editor, Educator, Essayist |
| Website | wendychin-tanner |
Wendy Chin-Tanner is an American poet, editor, and educator. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she was born and raised in New York City and educated at Cambridge University.[1][2]
Her first full-length poetry collection, Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award[2][3] and won praise from critics including Eduardo Corral, Garrett Hongo, and Cyril Wong.[4][5] A second collection, Anyone Will Tell You, will be published in 2019, also by Sibling Rivalry Press.[6]
Chin-Tanner is a founding editor of Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor of The Nervous Breakdown,[7] and co-founder of A Wave Blue World, a press specializing in graphic novels.[2] Her poems and other writings have been published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop[8] and in numerous journals and anthologies including The Mays literary anthology of Oxford and Cambridge,[9] The Saint Ann's Review,[10] Literary Mama,[10] The Rumpus,[11] Alternet,[12] XOJane,[13] and Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry.[14] She has been profiled and interviewed in the Huffington Post,[15][16] The Collagist,[6] the Atticus Review,[17] and other publications.
Chin-Tanner taught sociology online for Cambridge University.[2] She now teaches writing workshops and guest lectures at various institutions.[1] With Cheryl Strayed, she co-organized the 2017 Writers Resist event in Portland.[18]
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