Tina Schumann is a pushcart nominated poet and the author of three poetry collections, “Praising the Paradox” (Red Hen Press, 2019) which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, Four Way Books Intro Prize and the New Issues Poetry Prize, “Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues” (Diode Editions, 2017) which won the Diode Editions Chapbook Contest and “As If” (Parlor City Press, 2010) which was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY-award winning anthology “Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents” (Red Hen Press, 2017.) Schumann’s work received the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, finalist status in the Terrain.org annual poetry contest, as well as honorable mentions in The Atlantic, Crab Creek Review and Allen Ginsberg Award. She is poetry editor with Wandering Aengus Press and a graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her poems have appeared widely in publications and anthologies since 1999, including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Diode, Hunger Mountain Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Parabola, Paterson Literary Review, Palabra, Poetry Daily, Poemeleon, Rattle, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac (NPR), and The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. www.tinaschumann.com

Website: www.tinaschumann.com

Publications

• Praising the Paradox , Red Hen Press (July 9, 2019)
• Two-Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents , Red Hen Press (March 2017)
• Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues , Diode Editions (2017)
• As If , Parlor City Press (2010)

Awards

• IPPY Bronze medal for Two-Countries anthology in the Multi-Cultural catagory(2018)
• Diode Editions Chapbook Award (2016)
• Stephen Dunn Poetry Award(2010)
• American Poet Prize(2009)

Employment

• Assistant Director at Artsmith.org (January 2010 - December 2019)
• Poetry Editor at Wandering Aengus Press (March 2019 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University (August 2009)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry