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Tanya Rey is a queer Cuban-American writer who was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Granta, The Sun, Roads & Kingdoms, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Georgia Review, and Catapult, among others. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from The Georgia Review, Rona Jaffe Foundation, San Francisco Writers Grotto, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, UCross, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, and others. Her novel in progress was selected as a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and second place winner of the First Pages Prize; excerpts have been published in Guernica and The Georgia Review. Her writing was shortlisted for the 2020 Disquiet Literary Prize and the Granum Foundation Prize in 2021 and 2023.
Tanya has worked as managing editor for One Story and fiction editor for Epiphany and has taught creative writing at New York University and Writing Pad in San Francisco. She writes grants and copy for nonprofit organizations like 826 Valencia, the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, College Track, and On Lok. She lives in Oakland, California.