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Tammy Robacker
Education
The Evergreen State College, 1993
Pacific Lutheran University, 2016
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Biographical Note
Evergreen Alumna (1993) and former Poet Laureate of Tacoma (2011-12), Tammy Robacker, was recently awarded the 2015 Keystone Chapbook Poetry Prize by Seven Kitchens Press.
Robacker’s poetry chapbook manuscript, "R", was chosen as the Keystone Prize winner by final contest judge and renowned poet, Deirdre O’Connor. The Keystone Chapbook Prize is awarded to a poet who was born in, or has lived in, Pennsylvania, as well as any writer with a self-defined “Pennsylvania connection.” Robacker spent her early childhood years growing up in Meadville, Pennsylvania before moving to Washington State when she was 12 years old.
The chapbook "R" is a body of work dedicated to the memory of Robacker’s father, who was also born and raised in Pennsylvania. Robacker lost her father to cancer in 2004. The poems address some of the difficulties of that experience and loss and the bittersweet father-daughter relationship that existed between the two. Tammy Robacker is a Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence award winner (2011) and a TAIP grant recipient (2009). Her second poetry book Villain Songs is forthcoming with ELJ Publications in 2016. Tammy published her first collection of poetry, The Vicissitudes, in 2009 (Pearle Publications).
Tammy's poetry has appeared in Synesthesia, Menacing Hedge, Chiron Review, VoiceCatcher, Duende, So to Speak, Crab Creek Review, WomenArts, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University, Tammy will be graduating in summer 2016. Seven Kitchens Press will be publishing "R" in upcoming months and the book will be available this winter.
Publication Type
Poetry
Latest Publication Titles
"R", Poetry, Seven Kitchens Press, Pennsylvania
Villain Songs, Poetry, ELJ Publications, New York