Letter to My Embryo, Evolving

Tanya Grae won the 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Little Wekiva River (Five Oaks Press), and her poems have appeared in agni, New Ohio Review, The Florida Review, New South, Fjords, The Los Angeles Review, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. She lives in Tallahassee and teaches at Florida State University while completing her doctorate.