Tianna Bratcher

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Tianna Bratcher is a Black, queer, genderfluid poet, performer, and teaching artist. Their work has been published in Poetry, Voicemail Poems, Muzzle Magazine, Shade Literary Arts, december magazine, and other publications.

Bratcher has received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Griot’s Well, and Tin House. They have also been honored as a finalist for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and a semifinalist for the 2020 Miss Sarah Fellowship. They placed fifth at the US National Poetry Slam in 2017 and seventh in the world at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2020. Bratcher was a Queer Emerging Artist Resident at Destiny ARTS in 2017. They are pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Randolph College.