BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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Tina Schumann is a pushcart nominated poet and the author of three poetry collections, As If (Parlor City Press, 2010) which was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2016) which won the Diode Editions Chapbook Contest for 2016, and Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019) which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, Four Way Books Intro Prize and the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY award-winning anthology Two-Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen Press, 2017). Her work received the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, finalist status in the Terrain.org annual poetry contest, as well as honorable mention in The Atlantic. She is a poetry editor with Wandering Aengus Press and Assistant Director at Artsmith.org. Her poems have appeared in publications and anthologies since 1999 including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Crab Creek Review, Cimarron Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Palabra, Poetry International, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine and Verse Daily. You can read more about Tina at www.tinaschumann.com.