Tammi Truax

Tammi Truax is a writer and a teacher and currently works as an elementary school teacher librarian, and sometimes as a Sankofa Scholar for the NH Black Heritage Trail. She completed graduate work in Italy and the U.S., earning a M.Ed. in library media studies. She has served as the Maine Beat Poet Laureate for 2018-2020, and the Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate for 2019-2022.

Her poetry has appeared in eleven anthologies, including The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, with a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kent State University Press, 2014).

A young adult novel in verse, For to See the Elephants, was released in 2019. Her work can be found in several journals, newspapers, magazines, and online, including The Huffington Post, and she was a columnist at The Portsmouth Herald for ten years. Truax is making final edits to a two-book historical novel for adults from Oghma Creative Media.

Contact
Tammi Truax
Eliot, ME
 t4tu@comcast.net
Cell:  603-828-9837
Tammitruax.com

Tammi Truax's Programs