Tanya is queer poet and educator committed to access and equity. As a Toronto based poet who facilitates spoken word workshops, Tanya has more than 10 years of experience as a professional poet and continues to innovate.

Tanya is a Toronto Poetry Slam organizer, a member of the League of Canadian Poets and has worked with the Ontario Arts Council’s Artist in Education program, with Louder Than A Bomb Toronto, and TDSB Creates.

Piecing It Together, Tanya’s first book, was published in 2009 by Thee Hellbox Press, a printing press making innovative, hand-made books. The chapbook version of this work sold out. In 2015 Thee Hellbox Press and Tanya created a second chapbook titled, what breaks me open, available at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and translated into Turkish. Tanya is currently working on a third chapbook called Please Bring Me.

From poetry slams to festivals to schools and conferences in Vancouver, Victoria, Regina, Ottawa, Kingston, Montreal, Detroit, Madison, Columbus, & Boston, Tanya is keen to bring poetry to a venue near you.

As a member of the 2012 Toronto Poetry Slam team that represented Toronto at the US National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, NC and at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Saskatoon, where Tanya and team brought home the bronze.