Tamiko Beyer

Education

Masters in Fine Arts, Candidate
Creative Writing, Poetry
Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, December 2010
Bachelor of Arts: Subversive Arts, Multiculturalism, and Feminism   
Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, December1997
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Fellowships and Awards
• Chancellor’s Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008-2010
• Olin Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008-2010
• Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Finalist, Loving Lesbian Award, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, 2008-2009
• Kundiman Asian American Poet Fellow, Charlottesville, VA, 2005-2009
• Woodring Scholarship, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1996

Professional Experience
• Poetry Co-Editor and Design Team Member, Arch Literary Journal, St. Louis, MO, January 2009-present
• Creative Writing Workshop Leader, Doorways, St. Louis, MO, 2009
• Secretary, OutGrads, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2009-present
• Creative Writing Workshop Leader, NY Writer’s Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2005-present
• Co-founder, Agent 409 (multi-genre writing group), New York, NY, 2004-present
• Freelance Writer and Editor, Brooklyn, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA, 1998-2008
• Publications Coordinator, Women Make Movies, New York, NY, 2006-2008
• Steering Committee Member, Q-Wave  (NYC organization for queer women and transgender people of Asian descent), New York, NY, 2005-2006
• Outreach and Publicity, Democracy Now!, New York, NY, 2005-2006
• Director of Counseling Services, S.F. Women Against Rape, San Francisco, CA, 2003-2004
• Writer, Editor, and Project Manager, Wes Rataushk & Associates, Kirkland, WA, 2000-2003   
• Actor, Educator, Living Voices, Seattle, WA, 1999-2002
• Literacy Coordinator, Adult Literacy Program, Northeast Washington Rural Resources, Colville, WA, 1998-1999   
     
Publications

Poems
PANK 4.4 (April 2009)
The Sonora Review 55/56 (2009)
OCHO 22 (2009)
diode 2.2 (Winter 2009)
Copper Nickel 10 ( Fall 2008)
Reimagining Place Part 13 (February 2008)
The Progressive 72.2 (February 2008)
Best of Net Anthology  2007, Sundress Publications (2008)
WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly) 35:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2007)
Crab Orchard Review 13.2 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Inkwell 22 (Fall 2007)
Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Work by Asian American Women, San Francisco: Asian American Women Artists Association (2007)
Boxcar Poetry Review 7 (March 2007)
Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America 8.2 (2007)
The Gay and Lesbian Review 14.1 (January-February 2007)
The Drunken Boat  6.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006)
CRATE 2 (2006)
Triplopia  4.4 (Fall 2005)
DMQ Review (August 2005)
Tea Party 15 (2005)
Gumball Poetry 9 (Fall 2002)
Poets Against Rape Anthology, San Francisco: San Francisco Women Against Rape (2002)
CALYX Journal 19.3 (Winter 2000/2001)
StringTown 3 (2000)
Crab Creek Review (Summer/Autumn 2000)
CALYX Journal 18:1 (Summer 1998)

Essays and Reviews
• Review of like wind loves a window by Andrea Barker, Boxcar Poetry Review 3 (July 2006)
• “Louella Dizon.” The GreenwoodEncyclopedia Of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
• Review of Matadora by Sarah Gambito, chopblock.com (November 2005)
• Review of The California Poem by Eleni Sikelianos, Altar Magazine (2005)
• Review of Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life by Judith Strasser, Altar Magazine (2004)
• “Politics of Perception,” MAVIN Magazine 6 (2003)

Conference Presentations & Featured Poetry Readings
• Reader, Disrupting the Page, Revolution Books Honolulu, April 26, 2009, Honolulu
• “Disrupting the Page: Hybridity and Asian American Poetics” (roundtable participant), Association for  Asian American Studies Conference, April 22-26, 2009, Honolulu
• Reader, Women & Children First Bookstore, February 15, 2009, Chicago
• Reader, Uncalled-For Readings, Unnamed Books, June 18, 2008, New York
• Reader, Sulu Series, Bowery Poetry Club, June 15, 2008, New York
• “Sustaining Ourselves: Creating Peer Writing Workshops That Work” (facilitator). Split this Rock Poetry Festival, March 20- 23, 2008, Washington D.C.
• “Celebration Song, Circle Song: Kundiman Looks Back at its First Five Years” (panel participant). The Association of  Writers and Writing Programs Conference,  January 30-Feburary 2, 2008, New York City
• Reader, Pink Pony West, Cornelia St. Café, December 14, 2007, New York
• “Radiant and Radical: Nurturing Creativity in Social Justice Movements” (facilitator). United States Social Forum, June 27-July 1, 2007, Atlanta
• Curator, Writing Aloud, Brecht Forum, May 9, 2007, New York
• Reader, Under the Influence, Magnet Theater, May 8 2007, New York
• Reader,  Kundiman and Verlaine Reading Series, Verlaine, May 14, 2006 New York
• Reader, Pure Poetry, Fresh Fruit Festival, July 17, 2006, New York
• Reader, GirlSalon Reading Series, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
• Reader, Women’s Poetry Jam, Bluestocking Books, November 25, 2005 New York
• Reader, APAture 4, Kearny Street Workshops, September 27, 2002, San Francisco