Tania De Rozario (b. 1982)
BIOGRAPHY
Tania De Rozario is a writer, artist and nonprofit worker. Her latest collection, Dinner on Monster Island (Harper Perennial, 2024), has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine), “unique” (Publishers Weekly), “a book with resonance” (Kirkus Reviews), “taut and riveting”; (LA Times), “a book to savour” (Bay Area Reporter), “elegant”, “droll” and “magnetic” (British Columbia Review).
Tania’s writing has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020) and the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest (2021), has been a finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards (2021) and has been published in journals and anthologies including Carte Blanche, The Malahat Review, subTerrain Magazine, New Ohio Review, Evergreen Review, The Laurel Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner Online Journal, Blue Lyra Review, The Margin – The Asian American Writers Workshop Journal, and Softblow, among others. Her journey to Creative Writing started in 2011, when she won Singapore’s Golden Point Award for English Poetry. Her debut collection, Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press, 2013), was subsequently shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in Poetry in 2014.
Tania’s visual art has been showcased in galleries and art spaces in Singapore, Europe and North America, and she has written extensively about art for both institutions and commercial publications, with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia.
For many years, Tania worked as an adjunct. She taught at the UBC School of Creative Writing (2021-2023) and across faculties at Lasalle College of the Arts (2006-2018). Additionally, she has run art/writing workshops for Catapult (USA), Real Vancouver Writers (Canada), Sing Lit Station (Singapore), The Substation (Singapore), The Writing Co-op (USA) and Rainbow Writes (Malaysia). While in Singapore, she was also the co-founder of EtiquetteSG, a platform that developed and showcased art, writing and film by women from and in Singapore. Founded in 2010, its most recent work included the development and facilitation of art and writing workshops focused on issues of gender-based violence.
Born in Singapore, Tania lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, colonially known as “Vancouver”.
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