Tanya M. Beltran is a Bronx-based poet holding both an MAW in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction from Manhattanville College. During her graduate studies, she served as Editor-in-chief of the program’s literary journal, Inkwell. Her BA in English and Creative Writing is from Binghamton University.
Since 2022, Beltran has collaborated with SUNY-Delhi as its summer program’s visiting poet, conducting workshops for its incoming freshmen. In 2019, Beltran was awarded the Leon Levy Biography and Memoir Assistantship at The Graduate Center (CUNY), and she is also a 2017 VONA at UPenn Fiction alumna.
Her poetry can be found in First Literary Review—East, great weather for MEDIA, nwu.org, and within the Brevitas Anthologies 16-19. Beltran is also known for performing and curating spoken-word poems for specialized events throughout New York City.
When not writing, Beltran works as a Global Regulatory Publisher for the Biotechnical industry.
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“shadows of words unused haunt me, because i ignored their cry to exist.”
— from “The Curse of Writer’s Block” (published in Brevitas 17: Anthology, 2020)
