Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean’s latest book is Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). Her stories and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, The Southern Review, STORY Magazine, and elsewhere. Her essay "Safer Than Childbirth" received a 2024 Pushcart Special Mention and "Slow Blues" was a 2021 National Magazine Award finalist. She’s also the author of The Human-Powered Home. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Mesa Refuge, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. More at www.tamaradean.media.