Job title:
2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Bio/CV:
Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a queer, migrant, formerly undocumented poet, essayist, and performer. Her poetry collections include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback, 2011), YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017) and her latest publication, TO KILL THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT (Green Lantern Press, 2018). Currently, JT lives and works on Ohlone and Patwin lands and is pursuing her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Her research explores how contemporary Black and Indigenous poets use vocal practices to counternarrate histories of colonial violence.
Jenni(f)fer was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.