I am rooted in poetry
In 1995, while completing her B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Tanya began to see her poems published in independent literary anthologies and journals such as KOLA and La Vache Enragée Anthology.

After moving from Montreal, Québec to Vancouver, BC in 1997, her work began appearing in more mainstream publications such as A Room of One's Own. From editing independent literary journals to judging new work for the Québec Writers Federation and the Canada Council for the Arts, her work has always been centered around the word. Over the past ten years, she has written, read and performed from four chapbooks of poetry and short stories as well as two novellas both in Canada and abroad. Work published through her company Mother Tongue Media, includes The Golden Section (2001), Cut of Buddha/The Vancouver Eloquence (2000), Throwing Skin-South America Poems (1999), Word Class Animal (1997) and Blood in, Blood out (1996); see below. Tanya continues to swing between print and oral literature.

“Tanya Evanson's poetry is a voluptuous, rhythmic song. Her voice comes from deep in her belly and erupts across the page like a slow moving fire, leaving the trace of heartache...” Rocco de Giacomo, LATCHKEY

“Evanson’s subtle irony and figurative language is prolific and precise as she peels the dermis of her mind stripping each layer of thought from the trunk of her existence.  Her language is strong, rich, and vibrant and comes across with the authority of the new era in Black Canadian thought.” Anthony Joyette, CACIQUE







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KOLA
A BLACK LITERARY MAGAZINE
VOL 20 NUMBER 1 Spring 2008 paperback
guest editor Dr. George Elliott Clarke
Published by the Black Writer's Guild (Quebec)
ISSN 0835 2445
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ARABESQUE REVIEW
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S LITERATURE
VOL 3 ISSUE 2 August 2007 paperback
international English-language literary journal based in Algeria
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Bluesprint
BLUESPRINT: BLACK BRITISH
COLUMBIAN LITERATURE
AND ORATURE
Wayde Compton, ed.
Arsenal Pulp Press 2002
9" x 6" 320-page literary anthology
ISBN: 1551521180
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All Wound Up
ALL WOUND UP -
ALTERNATIVE WRITING
FROM BC
Ripple Effect Press 2002
8.5" x 5.5"
128-page literary anthology
ISBN: 1-894735-04-8
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A Room of One's Own
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN -
HOME AND AWAY

Growing Room Collective Dec. 2001
women's literature and criticism magazine
ISSN: 03161609
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Kola
KOLA
A BLACK LITERARY MAGAZINE

Anthony Joyette, ed. VOLUME 9 Number 2 1997
80-page literary magazine
ISSN: 0835-2445
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La Vache Enragee
LA VACHE ENRAGÉE -
ANTHOLOGIE 1996-97

Mitsiko Miller, ed.
Revue Stop 1997
58-page literary & visual anthology
ISSN: 12068470
out of print
The Golden Section
THE GOLDEN SECTION
BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 2001
8.5" x 5.5"
26-page poetry chapbook

ISBN: 0968814123
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Throwing SKin
THROWING SKIN -
SOUTH AMERICAN POEMS 1997-8

BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 1999, 2000
8.5" x 11"
66-page book of poetry & stories

ISBN: 0968814107
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Cut of Buddha
CUT OF BUDDHA /
THE VANCOUVER ELOQUENCE
BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 2000
8.5" x 5.5"
12-page poetry chapbook

ISBN: 0968814115
out of print
Word Class Animal
WORD CLASS ANIMAL
BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 1997
8.5" x 5.5"
20-page poetry chapbook

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Blood in Blood out
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT -
A UNIVERSAL PREPARATION

BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 1996
8.5 x 7" 38-page poetry chapbook
out of print
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