Tania Hershman

A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman’s hybrid creative non fiction book, It’s Time: A Chronomemoir, will be published by Guillemot Press in Summer 2025. Her second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022 and her debut novel, Go On, a hybrid ‘fictional memoir-in-collage’, by Broken Sleep Books in Nov 2022. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). Her poetry pamphlet, How High Did She Fly, was joint winner of Live Canon’s 2019 Poetry Pamphlet Competition and her hybrid particle-physics-inspired book and what if we were all allowed to disappear was published by Guillemot Press in March 2020. Tania is also the author of a poetry collection, a poetry chapbook and three short story and flash fiction collections, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics and is working on an alt-history novel and a hybrid poetry book inspired by Star Trek.

Photograph © Grace Gelder

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