About
Tanya Bomsta writes about real and fictional and scholarly things, and some others in between. Her essays, stories, and poetry have been featured in Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, The Iowa Review, december, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of several writing awards, including a Florida Review Editor Award and a Sustainable Arts Foundation finalist award. Her work has been listed as a finalist in The Pinch Literary Awards for fiction as well as in the Notable Essays of the Best American Essays. She holds a PhD and MFA from The Ohio State University.
Featured and Recent
Writing
[essays]
- Of Fear, 3Elements Literary Review (p.34)
- Against the End of the World, Fourth Genre
- Sanitary Engineering, Pleiades
- Burn, december
- The Archaeologists, The Iowa Review
- Erosion, The Gettysburg Review
- Traditions, The Florida Review
- The Visionaries, Stone Canoe
- Painting Portsmouth, Every River on Earth
- Elided, Clockhouse Review
[stories & poetry]
- Keepsakes, New Ohio Review
- Cartography, december
- When to Tell Your Son How Lobsters Are Prepared, One Art
[other things]
- Epistemic Agency in When Women Were Birds, Assay
- Stretching the Truth, PSIE
- A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies (Review), Pleiades
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