I am updating my bio and setting up an Amazon author page (which is proving to be fairly challenging) but thought I should share it here as well.
By day Tammi works with fourth grade
readers and writers and as a Connections program facilitator for the NH
Humanities Council teaching new adult readers, and at home, writes stories. All
of her work is about sharing her love of stories with others, especially in
sharing stories that tell truths previously buried. She has lived and worked in
New Hampshire, Maine and Germany, and has taught in a variety of nontraditional
settings from preschool to prison. In 2008, with NH poet Kyle Potvin, Tammi founded the non-profit The Prickly Pear Poetry Project: Processing
the Cancer Experience Through Poetry.
Children’s
literature is a lifelong passion and she has several picture books ready for a
publisher. She is currently working on two works of heavily-researched
historical fiction; a middle-grade novel-in-verse (ready for publication) and
an adult novel, still being revised. A volume of her poetry (also about history)
is due out in Feb. 2018 by Hobblebush Books. Her work can be found in several
journals, newspapers, magazines, and online, including at The Huffington Post. In
2014 she was the first winner of The Provenance Prize for creative short
fiction, and has been awarded stays at several prominent writing retreats. In
2015 and 2016 Tammi was awarded the Buffler Poetry Residency at Portsmouth (NH)
High School. She was recently selected to be the Maine Beat Poet Laureate for
2018-2020. Tammi is a member of many writing and historical associations. She
writes from a cottage in southern Maine, and is seeking representation for her
work.
