Photo by Doug Coombe

Photo by Doug Coombe

Tanya Muzumdar is a freelance book editor and writing coach. She has 20 years of professional experience as an editor and writer, and 5 years of experience as a college instructor of English composition, creative writing, and poetry. Tanya edits in all of the major genres: novel, short story, poetry, memoir, essay, and other nonfiction.

Tanya worked as a freelance journalist for many years, and is the former senior editor of a national literary journal. She was also a writer-in-residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her poems appear in Cherry Tree, Cimarron Review, Nashville Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, THRUSH Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.