MFA Alum Tiana Clark Published in The New York Times
MFA Alum Tiana Clark‘s (’17) review of the Super Bowl Halftime Show was published in The New York Times on Friday, February 14. Read the full story here.
Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collections Scorched Earth, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and the chapbook Equilibrium. Clark is the recipient of a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, Rattle Poetry Prize, Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, Pushcart Prize, and the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Clark is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (M.F.A) and Tennessee State University (B.A.). Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters and is the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College.
Tiana Clark will be a featured guest of the Vanderbilt Reading Series on Thursday, April 3. Join us in Buttrick Hall, Room 101 for a book signing and reading! The signing will start at 6:30, followed by the reading which will begin promptly at 7pm.