Tiana Nobile is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. A finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize, she is the author of Cleave (Hub City Press), and The Spirit of the Staircase (Antenna), a collaboration with artist Brigid Conroy. Recently named one of The Gambit’s “40 Under 40,” she is a founding member of The Starlings Collective.

Tiana earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MAT in Elementary and Special Education from the University of New Orleans, and MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Bulbancha, aka New Orleans, Louisiana, where she works as an educator specializing in arts integration.

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