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Tammy Gomez, a 2008 United States Artists award nominee, is a spoken word artist and multimedia performer who is recognized for her cutting edge performance art work, including the award-winning "Maya Matematica" and "Malinchuca," as well as her poetry--which has been widely anthologized.Tammy is profiled in _Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History_ (UT Press: Austin), and is featured in “Voices from Texas,” a PBS documentary film about Tejano/a poets. She has received grants from Humanities Texas, NALAC (National Association of Latino Arts and Culture), the Ford Foundation, and the City of Austin to support her work (theater, spoken word, lecture series). As an independent publisher (Tejana Tongue Press), she has published two anthologies: _In a Loud Kitchen: Voices of Yoniverse_ (1998) and _North Texas Neruda Love: poems, essays, testimonios in tribute to Pablo Neruda_ (2005).Tammy also produces PALABRAZOS, which is an annual festival of cutting-edge literary performance in Texas. She has also--at various times--been: literary publisher, radio producer and talk show host, events organizer, and educator/activist.In September 2007, the world premiere of her experimental obra de teatro, "She: Bike/Spoke/Love," drew a standing-room only audience and received critical acclaim. For more info: bikespokelove.com.Tammy is currently working with musician/songwriter Ramsey Sprague, creating soundscapes for her lyrical stories.A native Tejana, Tammy graduated from Goucher College (Maryland) in 1985. She has performed in bars, museums, juvenile detention centers, college classrooms, churches, and on the streets in Kathmandu and Guanajuato.Currently based in Fort Worth, Tammy has been recently published in TERRA FIRMA (Agave Noir Press, Austin) and BICYCLE LOVE (Breakaway Books, New York). In 2005, Sandra Cisneros selected Tammy’s poetry for inclusion in the autumn issue of CONJUNCTIONS, a literary journal pubished at Bard College in New York.Her work also appears in HECHO EN TEJAS (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).According to FW WEEKLY arts editor Anthony Mariani, Tammy is the “local Spoken-Word Poet Laureate.”_________________________Review, by Karen X, of Tammy's September 2008 performance at the Fire House Gallery in Fort Worth: "Melody Gomexican/TM a Go Go!---i just love love love your new live multi-media blog performance. wonderful visual experience, wonderful loving funny kind person onstage, eloquent. could've watched it forever!"______________________“awesome critical sensible nurturing revolutionary door-opening magical conjuring woman named Tammy Gomez, Tammy Melody Gomez”----BC Harrison, Professor of Anthropology.____________________"LA TAMMY ES UNA RUQUITA DE ARRANQUE Y TALENTO: POETA DE AQUELLAS. SE AVIENTA UNOS ROLLOS EXPLOSIVOS. IN CHORT, SHE’S THE BOMB!"---Juan Rodriguez, Professor of English, Lutheran State University_____________________She is a Libra Tiger, as were Oscar Wilde and Arthur Rimbaud.Tammy adores writing like an early 21st century cultural hybrid and, more importantly, living like one.She blogs at: http://xxcommunicator.blogspot.com.