Tiana Nobile is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. A finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize, she is the author of CLEAVE (Hub City Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Guernica, Southern Cultures, and the Texas Review, among others. Tiana received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MAT in Elementary and Special Education from the University of New Orleans, and MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Describe your teaching style.
I work to foster a space where everyone in the room feels comfortable to participate. I think it's so interesting when folks' reading of a work might be different and encourage lively discussion. I like to facilitate rather than lead and plan my classes as a balance between discussion of the reading, generative writing, and sharing new work.
