The Poetry Project

Tangie Mitchell

© Kate Vaesil

Tangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet, editor and collage artist from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured or is forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Poetry Wales, No, Dear, Mosaic, West Trade Review, Berlin Lit, Exposition Review, and more. A Watering Hole Fellow and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has also earned Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nominations and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Tangie lives in Brooklyn with a growing collection of 70’s and 80’s funk/soul memorabilia.