Tara Shea Burke

Tara Shea Burke is a queer poet from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She teaches writing and poetry at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. She’s been an editor and contest judge, a board member and grants coordinator, is a functional, accessible strength trainer, and hustled in restaurants for twenty years. Her work appears in Khôra, Southern Humanities Review, and Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press, 2022).