Who is TA?

Tyler Allen Penny (aka TAP) is a southern poet, educator, community organizer, and collagist.  Their poems and artwork have appeared or are forthcoming in The Washington Square Review, Crab Creek Review, Porter House Review, The Swannanoa Review, Beyond Queer Words, Northwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, West Trade Review, swamp pink, Best New Poets 2018, Columbia Journal, The Southampton Review, Francis House, Deep South Magazine, OF ZOOS, Fearsome Critters: A Millennial Arts Journal, Typishly, and elsewhere. A finalist for Narrative’s 14th Annual Poetry Contest, the 2021 Princemere Poetry Prize, the 2022 Frontier Chapbook contest, the 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, and honorable mention in Beloit Poetry Journal’s 2024 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize, they are the recipient of the Joseph Kelly Prize in Creative Writing, a Distinguished Travel Award to attend the Tin House Winter Workshop with Ada Limón, and offers of fellowships, residencies, and/or grants from Mississippi Arts Commission, Poets and Writers, Monson Arts, Taleamor Park, Vermont Studio Center, Crosstown Arts, Centrum, The Peter Bullough Foundation, and Jentel Arts. Formerly an associate poetry editor for West Trade Review, Iron Oak Editions, and managing editor for Frontier Poetry, they are currently the co-host and co-curator of the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series in NYC. They hold an MFA from Stony Brook University, and currently teach at both Stevens Institute of Technology and Suffolk County Community College, and live in Brooklyn, NY with their cat, LB2.