about
Tiana Nobile 문영신 is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021) and chapbook, The Spirit of the Staircase (Antenna, 2017), a collaboration with artist Brigid Conroy. She is a Korean American adoptee, artist, educator, member of the The Starlings Collective, recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and two-time finalist of the National Poetry Series. Her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Lit Hub, and Southern Cultures, among others. She lives with her family in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Gambit’s 40 Under 40, 2021
Best New Poets nomination for “Underwater Falsetto” in The Georgia Review, 2020
Recipient of a James Merrill Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, 2020
Finalist of the National Poetry Series, 2018 & 2019
Best of the Net Award nomination for “Mother of Rock” in The Indianapolis Review, 2019
Pushcart Prize nomination for “Mother of Rock” in The Indianapolis Review, 2018
Finalist of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, 2018
Pushcart Prize nomination for “‘‘Lost' first language leaves permanent mark on the brain, new study reveals" in Hyphen Magazine, 2017
Recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2017
Recipient of a Kundiman Poetry Fellowship, 2010
Recipient of the Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, 2009