TJ Jarrett

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Poet Bio: TJ Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published in Poetry, African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, VQR and others.

She has earned scholarships from Colrain Manuscript Conference and Vermont Studio Center; fellowships from Sewanee Writer's Conference and the Summer Literary Seminars; winner of VQR's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry; a runner up for New Issues Poetry Prize. She has been anthologized in Language Lessons by Third Man Books and Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 from Houghton-Mifflin and others.

In 2017, she was awarded the George Garrett New Writing Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Her debut collection Ain't No Grave was published with New Issues Press.

Her second collection Zion, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition 2013 was published by Southern Illinois University Press.


Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

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