Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Québécoise lover, poet, performer, vocalist, whirling dervish, educator and director of Mother Tongue Media based in Vancouver/Istanbul – a Grrrriotte. A graduate of Concordia University’s Creative Writing Program, she has published 5 poetry chapbooks and appeared in Canadian literary journals and anthologies, but she burns bright live. Past highlights include the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver International Storytelling Festival, Beats Without Borders, When Sisters Speak and ANU. She has 2 Spoken World music CDs – The Memorists (2008) and Invisible World (2004) and an award-winning videopoem Almost Forgot my Bones (2004). An old-school arts organizer, she produced and hosted the long-running Vancouver Spoken Word series Tales of Ordinary Madness, as well as Under the Griot Tree Black History Month Festival and Trans-Metaphoria Black Poetics. She moves back and forth between the visible and invisible world. Join or fetch.

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