Tami Haaland's Page

My second collection of poetry, When We Wake in the Night, was published in June 2012. It was a finalists for the May Swenson Award, and two selections from this book will be featured on American Life in Poetry in the summer of 2013. My first book, Breath in Every Room, won the Nicholas Roerich First Book Prize, and my poems have appeared on the Writer's Almanac, in High Desert Journal and 5 AM, and in several anthologies. "Goldeye, Vole," below, will appear in The Ecopoetry Antology edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street.

Originally from the Montana hi-line where my grandparents homesteaded in the early 20th century, I attended the University of Montana and received a B.A. and M.A. in English. Some years later, I received an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College.

I'm an professor of English at Montana State University Billings. I also teach periodically at the Montana Women's Prison. Russell Rowland and I founded Stone's Throw Magazine in 2009 and published five issues in the next two years.  In 2012 the Montana Arts Council generously provided me with an Innovation Award and I was named a "Humanities Hero" by Humanities Montana.

Over the years, I've been involved in a number of collaborative efforts. In 2003, Ian Elliot created a poetry performance of my work featuring local musicians, actors, and dancers, and including a series of paintings by the late Jo Rainbolt. More recently, dancer Betsy Harris and I performed in Dave Caserio's Feast for the Hunger Moon in 2008 and 2009. For the past two years, students in my poetry class have collaborated with Dennis Kern's art students to create posters and animations, some of which you can view here. In addition, I serve on the advisory boards for Aerie International and Arts Without Boundaries.

	Breath in Every Room available at Amazon.
	New Poets of the American West available at Amazon
	Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart available at Amazon