About Me
I’m a writer of essays, stories, and the occasional poem. My narratives and characters usually get caught up in the mess and freedom of exits: the lives left, the selves shed, and the things kept, abandoned, or remade along the way.
My work has appeared in Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, december, New Ohio Review, and other journals. I’ve received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award in nonfiction, a Florida Review Editors’ Award, and my work has been listed among the Notable Essays in Best American Essays. My fiction has been longlisted for the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize and named a finalist for The Pinch Literary Awards.
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
TANYA BOMSTA 