Tina Schumann is an award-winning poet and writer from Seattle, WA. She has published two poetry collections that have won several prizes, and she edited an anthology of flash memoir and poetry. Schumann has an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University and has won many awards for her writing, including the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She currently works as an editor and on the board of Artsmith, a nonprofit promoting arts education.

1. TINA SCHUMANN
Seattle, WA • (206) 276-0773
tinamsch@outlook.com
Poet • Writer • Editor
www.tinaschumann.com
CURRICULUM VITAE
SYNOPSIS:
• Poetry collection As If (Parlor City Press, 2010) awarded the 2010 Stephen Dunn Poetry
Prize. This manuscript was simultaneously chosen as winner of the 2010 Apprentice
House Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Poetry collection Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019) placed as finalist in the
National Poetry Series, New Issues Poetry Prize, Four Way Books Intro Prize, C&R
Press De Novo Book Award, Blue Light Press Book Award, Trio House Press Book
Award, Augury Books First Award, The Jacar Press Book Award as well as the Copper
Canyon Press, Sarabande Books and Tupelo Press annual open submission periods.
• Editor and curator of Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. An
Anthology of Flash Memoir, Personal Essays & Poetry (Red Hen Press, 2017).
Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Lee Young-Li, Timothy Liu, Naomi
Shihab Nye, Pregeeta Sharma, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong and others.
http://brute1222.wordpress.com/.
• Manuscript Only Then extended an invitation for publication by Pudding House Press in
2012.
• Manuscripts A Call for Haze and Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues currently in
production.
• Awarded the 2010 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal.
• Nominated for 2011 Pushcart Prize.
• Finalist in the 3rd
Annual Terrain.org Poetry Prize.
• Honorable mention in The Atlantic Monthly 2008 Poetry Writing Contest as well as the
2010 Crab Creek Review poetry contest.
• Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Class of 2009, Rainier Writing Workshop at
Pacific Lutheran University.
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2. AWARDS & HONORS:
• Winner: 2005 Judd Hill Poetry Contest.
• Winner: 2009 American Poet Prize.
• Winner: 2010 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize.
• Winner: 2010 Apprentice House Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
(chapbook/declined)
• Winner: 2011 Anhinga Press AWP contest to name a group of Anhinga.
• Nominee: 2011 Pushcart Prize.
• Finalist: 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Zola Literary Award.
• Finalist: Four Way books Intro Prize, National Poetry Series, New Issues Poetry Prize,
Augury Books First Book Award, Blue Light Press Book Award, C&R Press De Novo
Book Award, Jacar Press Book Award and Trio House Press Book Award.
• Finalist: 2013 3rd
Annual Terrain.org Poetry Prize.
• Runner-up: 2014 Phyllis L. Ennes Poetry Contest (Skagit River Poetry Festival). Chosen
by poet Ellen Bass.
• Honorable mention: 2008 Palettes & Quills 2008 Chapbook Contest. Chosen by poet
Ellen Bass.
• Honorable mention: 2008 The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Writing Contest.
• Honorable mention: 2010 Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest.
• Honorable mention: Tupelo Press named Praising the Paradox, “A remarkable work” in
their 2012 open submission period.
• Awarded 2013 Vermont Writer’s Studio Fellowship.
PUBLICATIONS:
American Society: What Poets See: “A Day in the Life” and “A World of Want”
Ascent: “For I Have Sinned”
Atticus Review: “Consider This”
Augury Books.com: “Wednesday”
Between Sleeps; the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005, a collection of writings from the middle of the
night. (en theos Press, 2006). Contributor.
Crab Creek Review: “After,” “Banishment at Noon” and “Random Winter Day”
Cranky Literary Journal: “This is my Confessional”
Cimarron Review: “Traveling Instructions” and “You Are Here”
Cysanthemum: “Home”
FEAST: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Serving at the Table (Black Lawrence Press 2015):
“Seven Ways of Looking at a Corkscrew.”
Generations Literary Journal: “Momentary Mother”
Harpur Palate: “Autumn”
Motherloss. An Anthology: “Communiqué,” “Gone,” “Not Dead, But Lost, and “Recall”
Nimrod: “Ode to Time, Lance and December Rain” and “Overture (anticipation)”
Palabra: “In Oaxaca” and “El Salvador 1972”
Parabola: “Vanishing Point”
Poemeleon: “Sunday”
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3. Poets West Literary Journal: “Pamela, In Five Parts”
Poetry International: “El Salvador 1972”
Poetry & Place Anthology: “Stoplight Outside Hamburger Harry’s, 2:00 am”
Pontoon#4, An Anthology of Washington State Poets (Floating Bridge Press): “A Memory in
Pink” and “Let Poem”
Raven Chronicles: “In Oaxaca” and “Seven Way of Looking at a Corkscrew.” (Pushcart
nomination)
San Pedro River Review: “Stoplight Outside Hamburger Harry’s, 2:00 am”
Skagit River Poetry Festival Anthology 2014: “Praising the Paradox”
Snow Monkey: “Dali vs. Dada”
Soundings: “I got those (low-down, dirty) Post-MFA blues”
subTerrain: “It’s Like This” and “Neither Here Nor There”
Switched-on Gutenberg: “Bad Weather Romance”
Synapse: “Domestic Argument #1,365”
Terrain.org: “Another Sunday,” “A Seasonal Accord,” “Home Redux” and “Winter,
Affirmation”
The American Poetry Journal: “Calculations” and “Friday”
The America Journal of Poetry: “Rehab Fugue #1”
The Human Journal: “Another Voyage.”
The Lost River Review: “Central Ave.” and “It is the Night”
The Midwest Quarterly: “Not Dead, But Lost” and “Highway 99”
The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine: “Last Call”
MFA Thesis: “The Here and the Gone: On the Representation of Absence and the Ephemeral in
Modern Poetry.” 2009. Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
JUDGE/EDITOR /READER:
• Editor and curator of Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. An
Anthology of Flash Memoir, Personal Essays & Poetry. Forthcoming from Red Hen
Press, 2017. http://brute1222.wordpress.com/
• Final judge, 2014 Kenai Peninsula Writers’ Contest.
• Final judge 2011 Artsmith Literary Award.
• Associate editor for the anthology Becoming: What Makes a Woman and Being: What
Makes a Man (Johnson, Jill McCabe Ed.). Published by the University of Nebraska
Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
• Review panel member for the 2009, 2010 and 2012 ArtSmith Literary Award.
• Review Panel member for 2012- 2016 Artsmith residency fellowship applications.
• Curator and pre-judge for the Dwell Press/Artsmith annual solstice broadside contest
2012 and 2013.
• Participant, reader and workshop facilitator: Skagit River Poetry Festival, May 2014.
• Coordinated and booked readings of my work from 2004-present with Artsmith Salon
Series, Beacon Bards Reading Series, Elliott Bay Books, Fremont Place Books, Open
Books, Pacific Lutheran University, Richard Hugo House, It’s About Time Reading
Series, Soul Food Reading Series, PoetsWest Reading Series and the University of
Washington Bookstore.
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4. WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES:
• Attendee: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). 2014 National
Conference, Seattle. Facilitator for conference sponsor The Rainier Writing Workshop at
Pacific Lutheran University.
• Attendee: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). 2013 National
Conference, Boston.
• Attendee: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). 2010 National
Conference, Denver.
• Co-facilitator: Earth as Muse, The Mess of Love and Poetry & Healing workshops/2014
Skagit River Poetry Festival.
• Co- facilitator: Writer Island Retreat and Workshop. Artsmith.org 2014.
• Co-facilitator: Step on It! Building Velocity in Poetry. Writer’s Roundtable Series,
Orcas Island Public Library, June 2013.
• Featured reader: Skagit River Poetry Festival 2014.
• Participant: Writer Island Retreat and Workshop. Artsmith.org 2013.
• Participant: LitFuse, a Poets’ Workshop. 2012, Tieton, WA. Master Workshop,
Christopher Howell instructor.
• Participant: Artsmith Residency, http://www.orcasartsmith.org/index.html 2009;
Marvin Bell, instructor.
• Participant: Richard Hugo House workshop, 2005; Anna Marie Hong, Writer-in-
Residence instructor.
• Participant: Skagit River Poetry Festival workshop, 2004; Tom Lux instructor.
• Participant: University of Washington Extension. Seattle, WA 2003; Belle Randal
instructor.
• Participant: Centrum Writers Workshop/Port Townsend, WA 2002; Dorianne Laux
instructor.
• Participant: Poetry Bootcamp/Seattle Poetry Festival; 2000, Danika Dinsmore
instructor.
• Participant: North Seattle Community College; Continuing Ed. Poetry Workshops;
1996-1999. Danika Dinsmore instructor.
EDUCATION:
• Pacific Lutheran University: Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, 2009
• Univ. of Washington Extension: Advanced Poetry Writing Certificate, 2001/2002
INTERNSHIP:
• Copper Canyon Press. Port Townsend, WA 2007
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
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5. • Associate Director: Artsmith. http://orcasartsmith.org/index.html. 2009-Present.
Artsmith is a non-profit organization promoting arts education and the creation of
new works of art through the following programs:
Residency opportunities for selected writers, artists, and scholars.
Literary events for writers, teachers, students, and those who appreciate fine
literature.
Literary contests to showcase the work of outstanding writers.
Exhibition and performance opportunities for local and visiting artists.
Publishing and/or broadcasting opportunities for fine literary works.
• Vice-President/Board Member: Seattle Poetry Festival. 1998-2002.
Served four consecutive years on the board of directors for the Seattle Poetry
Festival. I served as vice-president of the board for the 2001/2002 fiscal year.
During my tenure on the board I saw the organization grow from a grass-roots
program under the umbrella management of Eleventh Hour Productions into a
sustainable organization of its own and through to its merger with the Capital Hill
Arts Council (CHAC) in 2003. The Seattle Poetry Festival board, staff and
volunteers collaborated with The Richard Hugo House, The Northwest Book
Festival and several other local venues to host readings and fundraising events
during the festival and throughout the year. Some of the artists booked included
poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Sherman Alexi, Heather McHugh and Anne Waldman.
BLURBS & REVIEWS:
“Tina Schumann's poems address the big questions successfully because the poet is honest in her
self-reflective moments, rigorous in her moments of intellectual parry, playful linguistically, and
keen in her perceptions of those off-the-radar states of being that are so tricky to catch in an
accurate way. She refuses to be overwhelmed by the enormity of her task. Her reliance on tonal
shifts, formal arrangement and personal accountability make for a collection that strips away the
artifices of consolation even as it strives to bless.”
—Lia Purpura, author of "King Baby", winner of the 2007 Beatrice Hawley Award from
Alice James Books.
“In “As If” we have a poet completely in her element. The voice/tone is consistent, strong, and
each poem communicates with the others. This book dishes it out without being confrontational,
subversion and surprise on every page. The pace/cadence is superbly controlled by intelligent
line breaks (which may surprise the reader as these lines can be ridiculously long, the poems
bulky, yet it’s all masterfully done), enjambments, and the musicality of Schumann’s diction.
She is part Whitman, part prophet of the Americana. Not many poets I know can be both
heartbreaking and funny, but Schumann manages to walk the line between grief and guffaw.”
—Michael St. Paul, Goodreads.com/Community Reviews.
Early praise for “Praising the Paradox”: “What I admire most in Praising the Paradox is the
resilience throughout, and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates.
These poems navigate a landscape of loss where what goes on is the sway of stoplights, the
waitress with her coffee-pot suspended in the air, the everyday moments that gather momentum
and make a life. These poems celebrate the small gestures, carrying pain alongside joy,
reminding us we are alive.”
– Dorianne Laux, author of “The Book of Men,” winner of the Paterson Prize and
“Facts About the Moon,” which won the Oregon Book Award.
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