About

Tana Wojczuk is the author of Lady Romeo: The Radical Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity published by Simon & Schuster and Avid Reader Press in 2020. She was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award, Marfield/DC Arts Council Award in arts writing, and Judy Grahn Publishing Triangle Award, a LitHub! most anticipated read, Amazon Best Biography and Editors’ Pick, and LAMBDA literary most anticipated read.

She writes about the arts and ecology for TheNewYorker.com, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, Smithsonian, North American Review, Vice, The Rumpus, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Believer, Tin House, Orion and elsewhere and was a finalist for the Gulf Coast Nonfiction prize in 2017 and a Best American Science And Nature Writing notable in 2023. She was formerly an editor at Guernica.

Tana teaches creative nonfiction and the art of the essay as an Associate Professor at New York University. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University.

She grew up in Boulder, Co and lives in Brooklyn, NY.