Bio:
Tina Barry's third full-length collection I Tell Henrietta (Aim Higher Press, Inc.) was published in August 2024. She is the author of Mall Flower, poems and short fiction (Big Table Publishing, 2016) and Beautiful Raft, prose poems based on the lives of Virginia Haggard, the artist Marc Chagall's lover, and Haggard's daughter Jean McNeil (Big Table, 2019). Her poems and flash fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Rattle, Verse Daily, The Best Short Fictions 2020 (spotlighted story) and 2016. The American Poetry Journal, Lascaux Review, Flash-Frontier, SWWIM, Mom Egg Review, Gyroscope, The Third River, Yes Poetry, Sky Island Journal, Nixes Mate, A Constellation of Kisses anthology, Nasty Women Poets, Feckless Cunt, Exposure: An Anthology of Microfiction, and Veils, Halos and Shackles: Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women. In 2023, Barry's essay "Hosed" was chosen by Writersread.org to be performed at the City Winery in NYC. Tina's poems have been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize, and she has several Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions nominations. She teaches poetry and fiction at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com. Barry received a M.F.A. in creative writing from Long Island University, Brooklyn, in 2014. She lives in upstate New York.