Author Visit with Tami Haaland

Join us for a presentation from author Tami Haaland to kick off National Poetry month!

Author Bio: Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including, Ascent, Consequence, The American Journal of Poetry, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and Healing the Divide. Her work has also been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, and The Slowdown.

For five years, she taught poetry and literature at Montana Women’s Prison. During that time she collaborated with psychology and social work colleagues to develop a narrative therapy course and with artist Dennis Kern to assist MWP students in developing their own literary magazine. Haaland is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings and currently serves as Interim Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.