Tanya Olson

Tanya Olson is a poet and Teaching Professor of English at UMBC, based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her first collection, Boyishly, won a 2014 American Book Award. Her second book, Stay, was published by YesYes Books in 2019, and her third, Born Backwards, was announced for YesYes Books in 2024. She received a Discovery/Boston Review prize in 2010 and was named a 2011 Lambda Fellow, and her poem '54 Prince' appeared in Best American Poems 2015.