Tobey Kaplan, a poet originally from New York City, with degrees from Syracuse and San Francisco State Universities, has been teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 40 years. 

 An active member of California Poets in the Schools and Associated Writing Programs, Ms. Kaplan has given readings, workshops and presentations throughout the country regarding creative process, literacy and social change.  Ms. Kaplan has received grants from the California Arts Council, 1979-1982 to serve as poet in residence at community mental health centers. 

Her honors include: Dorland Mountain Colony Fellow, and Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and a recipient of the Bay Area Award (New Langton Arts, 1996). 

Across the Great Divide was published by Androgyne, in 1995, and her poems are contained in numerous literary anthologies, on-line 'zines and various journals. 

Most recently featured in the East Bay Monthly  April 2012, Omnidawn Feature February 2010,  and most recently   A Train of Thought Upside Down (Scarlet Tanager 2012) The Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times (Hip Pocket Press, 2013), and in recent issues of  Amsterdam Quarterly

As an adjunct faculty member, Tobey Kaplan teaches and has taught literature, humanities, creative writing and college composition at several East Bay community colleges, and works coordinating and supporting education opportunities for the Washoe Tribe/Native TANF program that serves members of the Native American community in Alameda County.   In her position encouraging those she works with to write, tell stories, discover resilience and continue with some kind of formal education. A long time mentor poet-teacher for California Poets in the Schools, she remains committed to the primacy of imaginative language while working as an education liaison for the Native TANF program in Alameda County.  She lives in a  fabulous Oakland neighborhood with her partner dancer Nan Busse and wonderdog Vida

Awards

• Headlands Center for the Arts-Affliate(1995)
• New Langton Arts Bay Area Award(1998)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English-Creative Writing /Social Sciences from Syracuse University (May 1975)
• Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies /Creative Arts Ed. from San Francisco State University (January 1983)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry