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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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no image available 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 about |
 ARABESQUE REVIEW CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S LITERATURE VOL 3 ISSUE 2 August 2007 paperback international English-language literary journal based in Algeria about order |
 BLUESPRINT: BLACK BRITISH COLUMBIAN LITERATURE AND ORATURE Wayde Compton, ed. Arsenal Pulp Press 2002 9" x 6" 320-page literary anthology ISBN: 1551521180 about order |
 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 about order |
 A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN -
HOME AND AWAY Growing Room Collective Dec. 2001 women's literature and criticism magazine ISSN: 03161609 order |
 KOLA
A BLACK LITERARY MAGAZINE Anthony Joyette, ed. VOLUME 9 Number 2 1997 80-page literary magazine ISSN: 0835-2445 out of print |
 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
BY TANYA EVANSON mother tongue media 2001 8.5" x 5.5" 26-page poetry chapbook ISBN: 0968814123 order |
 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 writing gallery order |
 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
BY TANYA EVANSON
mother tongue media 1997 8.5" x 5.5" 20-page poetry chapbook out of print |
 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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