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Tamara Madison is a writer, poet, and performer currently living and working in Atlanta. She is the author and performer of Naked Voice, the 2002 winner of the First Literary Recording Contest sponsored by AUTHENTIC VOICE work Records with Manzanita Quarterly produced at The Santa Fe School for Wonder.

Her literary work has been published in Manzanita Quarterly, The Lucid Stone, The Black American Literature Forum, Seattle Poets and Photographers, Kola, Pleiades, Portland Review and the HarperCollins anthology of contemporary African American women’s voices, Sisterfire. Her works for stage have been featured during ESTROFEST, THE RAGE PROJECT at Seven Stages in Atlanta, Georgia (2003), New Black Playwrights Festival in Atlanta, Georgia and Intiman Theater’s New Voices Series in Seattle, Washington. In addition, Madison was featured as a writer and performer for TBS Superstation, Interact Atlanta Black History Special, Crossroads (2002). She has also recorded as a bilingual poet and songstress on the self-titled CD, JUBA Collective (Premonition Records), an internationally performing, and multidisciplinary, touring arts ensemble from Chicago.

Committed to artistic expression, education and the development of “unsung” voices, she has worked extensively as a teaching artist-in-residence with various community and arts agencies including: Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Seattle Arts & Lectures Writers in the Schools, Washington State Arts Council, King County Arts Council, Seattle Arts Commission, Powerful Schools and Washington State Department of Corrections.

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, she has lived in Seattle and Chicago and has studied in Strasbourg, France. She is a graduate of Purdue University where she was an active member of the Black Cultural Center’s writing, choral and drama ensembles. Madison is currently completing a literary manuscript and a one-woman stage piece as companion to her solo CD project.