Tanya Grae

Poet

Tallahassee, FL
Florida US

Author's Bio

Tanya Grae is the author of UNDOLL (YesYes Books, 2019), winner of the Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by a Literary Press, a Florida Book Award, and National Poetry Series finalist. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and, in 2016, she won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, Post Road, Barrow Street, The Massachusetts Review, and other places. Grae holds an MFA from Bennington College and a PhD from Florida State University. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College MFA
Florida State University PhD

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

 

  • Julie Suk Award, Best Poetry Book by a Literary Press, 2019;
  • Florida Book Award, 2019;
  • Winner, John Shaw Academy of American Poets Prize, 2018;
  • Finalist, National Poetry Series, 2017;
  • Finalist, Saturnalia Book Prize, 2017;
  • Finalist, Four Way Levis Prize, 2017;
  • Winner, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize, 2016;
  • Finalist, Permafrost Book Prize, 2017;
  • Finalist, Four Way Book Intro Prize, 2016;
  • Finalist, The Brittingham and Pollak Prizes, 2016;
  • Winner, Arden Goettling Academy of American Poets Prize, 2010

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
SC
South Carolina
Raised in: 
Air Force base towns all over the US
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Last update: Oct 10, 2025