Tamie Parker Song is an essayist and improviser who grew up between Jerusalem, Alaska, and the American Midwest. She specializes in disrupting and grappling with stable systems. She loves walking very much. 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 and DC. She has been a MacDowell fellow, an Island Institute (in Sitka, Alaska) fellow, and her writing has been published in New Lines Magazine, Terrain.org, New Ohio Review, The Selkie Zine, Brink Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the co-director of a web of human relationships (sometimes known as mutual aid) that tries to keep people alive who are being treated as sub-human. That web of human relationships is called Impossible Light.
Portugal, 2023, self-portrait
Photo by Kelsie Barbour. Alphabet City in NYC in 2019ish, in the magical apartment where I lived for 3 years.