Tamra Plotnick
Author of In the Zero of Sky
Tamra Plotnick, the author of In the Zero of Sky, has work in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Serving House Journal; The Waiting Room Reader, Vol II: Words to Keep You Company, edited by Rachel Hadas; Tribes #8, Stickman Review, LiveMag, BigCityLit; Atlantic Review; Lurch; Burrow; The Midwest Review; Hunger Enough, and Global City Review: International Edition. Her memoir excerpt “Barbie and Gandhi Sitting in a Tree” appeared in The Coachella Review. She has read and performed her work in multimedia shows at a range of venues, including La Mama Theater, Zinc Bar, KGB, and Cornelia Street Café. With a long and varied background as a dancer, Tamra has performed at Dixon Place, Cafe Teatro Julia de Burgos, The Caribbean Cultural Center, and PS 122. She has developed and led workshops melding creative writing with movement and continues to dance samba, Afro-Caribbean, improvisation, and Raqs sharqi. She earned a master’s degree in Creative Writing from City College of New York, where she won a New York Times Fellowship and an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in education and is a certified yoga instructor. She teaches English Language Arts in an alternative public high school in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Tamra Plotnick’s poems course the dialectic between freedom and containment, banging up against elements and identities along the way. In the process of observing the walls of cities, of motherhood, of the human heart, or even a verse’s form, the poems discover cracks, leading to an infinite sky. Such wild blue yonder offers wisdom, liberation, and a canopy over the sacred, the frivolous, and the profane.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7356923-8-8
eISBN-13: 978-1-7356923-9-5