Tanya Grae was born in South Carolina while her father was stationed at Shaw, and she grew up moving to random Air Force towns like Little Rock, Minot, Tucson, Panama City, and Homestead. This survivalist training prepared her for a litany of jobs, academia, and parenting three humans, two of whom are now adulting. Her […]
Tanya Grae
Tanya Grae: Dear Ozy—
I named all my cities for you in this play of civilization, What You Can’t Know (or How Millennia Collapse to Seconds). I drove to St. Simons & ate dinner at the same table, but not the same meal. Oceans feed tears to oysters— little tombs of mouth & foot. I knelt in the morning […]
Tanya Grae: Duchess
There she stands as if alive. — Robert Browning If you would just be a better wife. If you would just be a better mother. If you would just be like my mother. If you would just get off the computer. If you would just get […]
Tanya Grae: The Unfaithful Housewife
after Federico García Lorca / after Conor O’Callaghan no one led me to the river & I was not a virgin because I had a husband & you those long weekends in Mobile I should have stayed the street lights weren’t on yet as I parked at the restaurant […]