Rebecca Tamás is a poet and creative nonfiction writer based in London. She is the author of the poetry collection WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019), which was a Poetry Society Choice, a Times and Guardian Book of the Year, and a Paris Review Staff Pick.
Tamás' environmental essay collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina Books, 2020) was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2021 and was translated into Spanish, Catalan and Turkish. She won the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize, and was a 2017 Fenton Arts Trust Fellow. Her writing has appeared in publications including The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, Poetry Review, The White Review, The Guardian, Art Review, and Frieze. She currently works as a lecturer in creative writing at City, University of London.
At MacDowell, Tamás worked on a book of environmental creative nonfiction, working title The Book of Mysteries, focusing on the ways in which seasonal ritual might help us to forge a deeper connection with the natural world.
Portrait by Sophie Davidson
