Tanya Grae is a poet, writer, and teacher. Born in Sumter, South Carolina to military life, her childhood crisscrossed America, back to her roots in Nashville, and finally to Florida. She received a BA in English from Rollins College, and is an MFA candidate at Bennington College. She won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2010 and serves an editor for SPECS. Grae lives in Orlando, Florida, where she is mom to three—six, if you count the yellow Labrador and two vainglorious porch cats.