Tamara J. Madison is an author, poet, editor, and instructor. Her critical and creative works have been published and recorded in various journals, magazines, anthologies, podcasts, and exhibits  including Linden Avenue, Poetry International, Extract, Web del Sol Review of Books, Tidal Basin Review, Black Magnolias, and aaduna.  She has also been published in the anthologies, SisterFire (HarperCollins), Temba Tupu (RedSea Press), and Check the Rhyme (LitNoire Press).

She is the author of Collard County (short stories), Kentucky Curdled (poetry), and Sistuh’s Sermon on the Mount (poetry chapbook – Open Hand Press). Her most recent poetry collection Threed, This Road Not Damascus is published by Trio House Press (May 2019) and was short-listed under the title, Breast Poems, in the 2015 Willow Books Literature Award.  Threed, … has been reviewed in Poetry International, Cider Press Review, Empty Mirror Review, and Cordella Magazine.  Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net.

Tamara is the creator and host of BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, a conversation series on YouTube to spread awareness of poets and their poetry as inspiration and motivation for everyday life.  

Tamara has performed and recorded her work for stage, television, and studio. She enjoys facilitating creative writing workshops for campus and community. She is an MFA graduate of New England College and an Anaphora Arts Writing Residency fellow (2021). She currently lives in Orlando, Florida where she teaches as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Valencia College.

Website: www.tamarajmadison.com

Twitter Username: @TamaraJMadison

Publications

• Threed, This Road Not Damascus , Trio House Press (July 1, 2019)

Employment

• Professor of English & Creative Writing at Valencia College (August 2014 - )
• Professor of English at Stetson University (August 2014 - August 2015)
• Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University (August 2010 - December 2013)
• Professor of Developmental English at Hudson County Community College (August 2010 - December 2013)

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, Literary Criticism/Response from New Englan College (July 2010)
• Bachelor of Arts in French, African American Literature/History from Purdue University (May 1986)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry