Tami Haaland is the author of three books of poetry: What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, a finalist for the May Swenson Award, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press. She is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars and a professor of English at Montana State University Billings. She taught creative writing at Montana Women’s Prison from 2008-2013, and she coordinates a writing-in-the-schools program for Arts Without Boundaries. She has received awards from the Montana Arts Council and Humanities Montana, and she served as Montana's Poet Laureate from 2013-2015. 

Haaland’s work has appeared in Calyx, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, High Desert Journal, 5AM, South Dakota Review, Platte Valley Review, and Rattapallax as well as other journals. Her poems have appeared online in The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. Three of her poems have been featured on American Life in Poetry. In addition, her work has been anthologized in 20 volumes, including Kennedy and Gioia's Literature: An Introduction, and The Ecopoetry Anthology edited by Street and Fisher-Wirth.

Twitter Username: @TamiHaaland

Publications

• When We Wake in the Night: Poems , Wordtech Editions (June 2012)
• Breath in Every Room , Story Line Press (December 2001)

Awards

• Faculty Excellence Award(2014)
• Outstanding Faculty Award(2012)
• Montana Arts Council Artists' Innovation Award(2011)
• Faculty Excellence Award(2008)
• Cox Junior Faculty Award(2003)
• Nicholas Roerich Prize(2001)

Employment

• Professor of Creative Writing at Montana State University Billings (September 1994 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literature: Poetry from Bennington Writing Seminars (January 2000)
• Master of Arts in English Literature from University of Montana (June 1985)
• Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from University of Montana (June 1982)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Poetry