Kendra Tanacea

Kendra Tanacea holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College, where she completed her first poetry collection, If You're Lucky Nobody Gets Hurt. Her collection of poetry, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, was a semifinalist for the Washington Prize and a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and was published by Lost Horse Press in March 2017. Her second book, The Alchemy of Us, was a semifinalist for the 2019 Washington Prize. 

Kendra's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Poet Lore, 5AM, Rattle, apt, Licking River Review, Stickman Review, Barely South Review, The Coachella Review, Juked, El Portal, Flint Hills Review, and Moon City Review, among others. Kendra attended the2016 Community of Writers Poetry Workshop and the 2018 Napa Valley Writer's Conference. In 2017, her poems “Perennial” and “Making Risotto for Dinner When His Ex-Wife Calls” were featured on the The Writer's Almanac.