Tamiko Beyer’s poetry has appeared in little red leaves, diode, Sonora Review, OCHO, Copper Nickel, The Progressive, and other journals and anthologies. She is a founding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective in New York City that has performed across the east coast and led workshops at conferences such as the U.S. Social Forum and Split this Rock Poetry Festival.

She has received several fellowships and grants, including a Kundiman fellowship, a grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and an Olin and Chancellor’s Fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis where she is currently an M.F.A. candidate. She is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat and poetry co-editor of Arch Literary Journal.

Tamiko has led workshops for the New York Writers’ Coalition since 2005, where she works with homeless LGBT youth and other communities whose voices have been historically silenced. In St. Louis she led a writing workshop for children in an HIV/AIDS supportive housing residence for single parents, and was an instructor for Introduction Poetry Writing at Washington University..

With a background in both copy writing/editing and grassroots organizing, Tamiko has worked for a variety of nonprofit organizations, including the news program Democracy Now!, feminist film distributor Women Make Movies, and San Francisco Women Against Rape.

Raised in Tokyo, Japan, Tamiko has lived on both the East and West coasts. She received her B.A. from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. She currently divides her time between St. Louis and Brooklyn where her partner and two cats reside. Her favorite mode of transportation is her trusty bicycle.