GEORGE GARRETT NEW WRITING AWARD

Tanya J. Jarrett, 2017 Recipient

TJ Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published in Poetry Magazine, African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, VQR and others. She has been anthologized in Language Lessons by Third Man Books and Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 from Houghton-Mifflin. Her debut collection Ain’t No Grave  was published with New Issues Press  (2013) and her second collection Zion  (winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition 2013) was published by Southern Illinois University Press.

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:

Megan Mayhew Bergman, novels and essays

 2015

Rose McLarney, poetry, 2013

James Hall, poetry,  2011

Kevin McFadden, poetry, 2009

Jennifer Grotz, poetry, 2007

Charlotte Matthews, poetry, 2007
Thorpe Moeckel, poetry, 2005

Julia Johnson, poetry, 2003