Writing Portfolio
Current Works-in-Progress
When a young woman goes missing in Portland, Maine, Detective Bonnie Cardelli pursues the case despite explicit orders to let it drop. In the process, she uncovers a chain of corruption that puts her career and the lives of key witnesses at risk.
Excerpts of LOST DOGS have appeared in Hypertext Magazine and Beer & Weed Magazine.
NOVEL
LOST DOGS
A collection of stories that explores the impact of military service on dependents (the term used for spouses and children) during the last years of the Cold War.
Stories from BRASS have been featured in The Cincinnati Review, Al Pie de la Letra, Fanzine, CutBank, and Collateral.
SHORT STORIES
BRASS
LIMITED TELEVISION SERIES
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I am developing Elizabeth Garber’s memoir—SAILING AT THE EDGE OF DISASTER: A YOUNG WOMAN’S DARING YEAR—for a limited television series.
Garber’s memoir chronicles her adventures—along with 50 teens and their twenty-something teachers—as part of an ill-fated sailing school housed aboard the four-masted sailing vessel Antarna in the 1970s.
Previous Projects & Awards
Tanya’s stories and essays have been published in BREAKING BREAD: ESSAYS FROM NEW ENGLAND ON FOOD, HUNGER, & FAMILY, Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices, North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Crazyhorse, and in the anthology THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE: A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY CONTEMPORARY MAINE WRITERS.
A recipient of the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, she was a finalist for the 2019 Tennessee Williams Contest, won second place in Zoetrope: All Story’s 2017 Short Fiction Contest, and has been a two-time recipient of the Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine writers.
For ten years, Tanya worked as a freelance writer for Casco Bay Weekly and The Portland Phoenix. In 2014, with photographer Heidi Killion, she published a collection of travel essays, TWO FOR THE ROAD: ADVENTURES IN MAINE.
Tanya was also the co-writer and an associate producer of the documentary feature, THE ZEN SPEAKER: BREAKING THE SILENCE, directed by Robin Greenspun (Culture Dog Films) in association with Quiet Film.