
I’m trying to write literature here.
– Tina McElroy Ansa
awards + recognition
- Café Royal Cultural Foundation nyc, Literature Grantee
- Smith College Special Collections, Arts & Media Travel Research Fellow
- Dream Foundry Speculative Writing Contest, third place
- The Center for Fiction, Emerging Writers Fellow
- Miriam Chaikin Prose Writing Award, recipient
- margolis award for social justice journalism, finalist
- the Delacorte Review, columbia journalism school, diversity grantee
- Brooklyn Public Library, bklyn incubator grantee
SELECT publications
[how i wonder what we are], Unlost Journal of Found Poetry and Art
A Short Story About a Woman Who Can’t Stop Burying Things, Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Anthology
Third Place, Dream Foundry Speculative Writing Contest
Big Mouth Mitchie, CRAFT Literary
A Fortune Teller Worth Her Ball Should Refuse to Tell You When You’re Going to Die, Passages North
The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont, The Delacorte Review
[Longreads Best of: Reader Favorites]
The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle
Fried Fish, The Hennepin Review
[Pushcart Prize, Nominee]
[The Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee]
On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly
Visiting a Boy’s Room, Split Lip Magazine,
[Wigleaf Longlist]
–Republished in EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, Volume II]
A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic’s Persistence, Zone 3 Press
Wherein the Civil Court of State Sanctioned Companionship Considers a Petition, Emerge: Lambda Fellows Anthology
residencies & workshops
- lesbian herstory archives: blss, research resident
- Spruceton Inn, artist Resident
- Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residency, Juried Fellow
- Bryn Du Mansion, Artist in Residence
- Lambda Literary writer’s retreat for Emerging LGBT voices, nonfiction fellow
- Kimbilio for Black Fiction, workshop participant
- St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, inaugural resident