A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. -Paul Valery

Tamie Parker Song

Tamie Parker Song is an essayist and improviser who grew up between Jerusalem, Alaska, and the American Midwest. She specializes in grappling with systems whose stability is predicated on injustice. Tamie has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, an MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work in New York City, and is a psychotherapist in Virginia. She has been a MacDowell fellow; an Island Institute fellow in Sitka, Alaska; and her writing has been published in New Lines Magazine, Terrain.org, New Ohio Review, The Selkie Zine, Brink Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.