Tamar Ashdot

An interdisciplinary artist raised in Brooklyn, New York, Tamar is an educator, poet, essayist, photographer, and musician. Tamar holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, is an Academy of American Poets College Prize winner and a recipient of fellowships from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and Vermont Studio Center. Tamar’s poetry is forthcoming or published in Palette Poetry, American Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review mixtape, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, and Paterson Literary Review, amongst others. Tamar has facilitated workshops on a variety of topics, ranging from Creative Writing to Professional Development in Arts Education, for high school and undergraduate students with organizations such as InsideOut Literary Arts, NYC Department of Education, University of Michigan, and others. www.tamarashdot.com