About Tessa Rumsey
Born 1970. Tessa Rumsey is a poet and writer.
Tessa Rumsey is an American poet based in San Francisco.
Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The New Republic. She is a graduate in 1992 in Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College. Later studying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she received an MFA and in 2002 she received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts.
Work "Everlasting Gobstopper", Slope 10 2004 – Barnard Women Poets Prize
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