Praising the Paradox

Tina Schumann is the author of the poetry collections As If (Parlor City Press, 2010), which was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, and Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2017), which won the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook competition. Her work was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, Four Way Books Intro Prize, and the New Issues Prize. She is the recipient of the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart nominee. She is the curator and editor of the anthology Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in various publications and anthologies since 1999 including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Palabra, Parabola, Poemeleon, Poetry International, Terrian.org, and The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Read more about Tina at www.tinaschumann.com.