College English instructor is named finalist for Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry

April 20, 2018

Anoka-Ramsey Community College English instructor Elizabeth Tannen has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, which is presented through a partnership by Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation. The award is intended to support outstanding poets residing in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota, to bring their work to a national stage.

Tannen, a Brooklyn, Minn. native currently residing in south Minneapolis, is a teacher, activist and multi-genre writer. She holds a Master in Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico. In 2016-2017, she won a Loft Mentor Series Award and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, both for poetry. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in places like Copper Nickel, Salon, Southern Humanities Review, Conduit, Passages North and other journals, as well as the blog she has written since 2009, Dating in the Odyssey Years.

In 2015, Tannen founded the ongoing reading series, Five Writers, Five Minutes, Five Watt, also known as 555.

For more information about Elizabeth Tannen and her work, visit www.elizabethtannen.com/.

For more information about the award-winning faculty at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, visit AnokaRamsey.edu.