Tobi Cogswell

Author's Bio

Tobi Cogswell is a two-time Pushcart nominee. Publication credits include Illya’s Honey, Rhino, RE:AL, Decanto (UK), Red River Review, Turbulence (UK), Spilt Milk (UK), Inkspill (UK), Iodine Poetry Journal and Frostwriting (Sweden) among others, and are forthcoming in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Pinyon Journal, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She has four chapbooks and her full-length poetry collection “Poste Restante” is available from Bellowing Ark Press. She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com).

Publications and Prizes

Journals:

Bellowing Ark, Eclipse, Essence, Forge Journal, Los Angeles Review, Other Voices, poeticdiversity, Red River Review, Spot Literary Magazine, VerbSap.com

Prizes:

Co-recipient of the first annual Lois and Marine Robert Warden Poetry Award from Bellowing Ark in 2008.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

A Literate Passion, Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller 1932 - 1953 by Gunther Stuhlmann, The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn, Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke

Favorite Books:

Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

Favorite Authors:

Howard Norman, Ellen Gilchrist, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Alice Hoffman, Diana Abu-Jaber, Anne Lamott, Ron Carlson.

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Listing last updated: August 21, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Los Angeles, CA

Raised in:

Northridge, CA