Tasha Cotter, Author at Shadelandhouse Modern Press

About Tasha Cotter

Tasha Cotter is the author of the poetry collection Some Churches (Gold Wake Press, 2013) and the chapbooks That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Girl in the Cave (Tree Light Books, 2016). Winner of the 2015 Delphi Poetry Series, her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Booth. In 2015 she was named runner-up in the Carnegie Center's Next Great Writer contest. A contributor to Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), The Poets on Growth Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015), and the 2017 Poet's Market (Writer's Digest Books), she makes her home in Lexington, Kentucky where she works in higher education.

28 06, 2018

Two Poems by Kentucky Poet Tasha Cotter

By Tasha Cotter|2018-06-28T10:26:12-04:00June 28th, 2018|Southern Voices|0 Comments

Where I Come From by Tasha Cotter After George Ella Lyon I come from hunting seasons and hybrid bass. High school boys chewing tobacco in the halls. Kilts and silks and my mother’s wedding dress. A symphonic band and

7 12, 2017

“How it Felt to be in the Fields,” by Tasha Cotter

By Tasha Cotter|2017-11-30T16:07:13-05:00December 7th, 2017|Southern Voices|0 Comments

How it Felt to be in the Fields by Tasha Cotter For a long time, the silence wasn’t mine. My thoughts hit against the curved horizon. The county line held me, as if in a sphere of green fields

30 11, 2017

“Your Heart is a Map,” by Tasha Cotter

By Tasha Cotter|2017-11-30T15:25:32-05:00November 30th, 2017|Southern Voices|1 Comment

Your Heart is a Map by Tasha Cotter Sometimes when I read what people write about the heart I feel I've traveled the same country, took notes from the same shores and church yards. I remember everything, too: The