Tamiko Beyer
divides her time between Brooklyn and St. Louis, where she is pursuing
an M.F.A. at Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry has
appeared in diode, Copper Nickel, The Progressive, Gay and Lesbian Review and
other publications. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a founding member of
Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing workshop in New York city. She
leads creative writing workshops for homeless LGBT youth, children from
low-income families, and other communities. She has been awarded a
grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, a Chancellor’s Fellowship
and Olin Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis, and
residencies at Hedgebrook, Soul Mountain Retreat, and Casa Libre en la
Solana. You can contact her here, or emailing tamiko.b (at) gmail (dot) com.
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