Talin Tahajian – Editor

I'm a longtime editor of poetry and can provide extensive feedback (both broadly/developmentally as well as at the level of the line or syllable) on book manuscripts and other portfolios of creative work: I was a senior editor in poetry at THE ADROIT JOURNAL for nearly ten years and currently serve as the assistant poetry editor for THE YALE REVIEW.

I'm a PhD student in English literature at Yale with two starred first-class degrees in English from the University of Cambridge (BA & MPhil) and an MFA in creative writing/poetry from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I won a Hopwood. My own poetry has appeared in POETRY MAGAZINE, NARRATIVE MAGAZINE, BEST NEW POETS, COPPER NICKEL, THE IOWA REVIEW, THE KENYON REVIEW, THE ADROIT JOURNAL, PASSAGES NORTH, PLEIADES, THE RUMPUS, COPPER NICKEL, TRIQUARTERLY, WEST BRANCH, MIZNA, THE DRIFT, THE GEORGIA REVIEW, THE MISSOURI REVIEW, POETRY DAILY, VERSE DAILY, OXFORD POETRY, AGNI, LANA TURNER, and elsewhere. Recently, I’ve been a finalist for CUTBANK's Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, THE ADROIT JOURNAL's Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program, THE GEORGIA REVIEW’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, THE MISSOURI REVIEW’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry, THE IOWA REVIEW Award in poetry, and the OXFORD POETRY Prize, runner-up for the INDIANA REVIEW Poetry Prize, and nominated for multiple Pushcarts. This year, I was a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and the Saturnalia Books prizes for poetry manuscripts, and a semifinalist for Tupelo Press' Dorset Prize. My work has been supported by e.g. the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

***When writing me, please include your complete WORD COUNT in your brief (rather than your page count). Currently open to taking on new clients. Thank you so much!***