Avia Tadmor’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, The New Republic, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Tadmor has received support from Yaddo, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Adroit Journal’s Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program. Previously, she taught writing at Columbia University, where she directed the Columbia Artist/Teachers program, promoting no-cost arts education in schools and community organizations in New York City. Currently, she is clinical assistant professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. Born in Jerusalem, she lives in New York.