Tana Wojczuk is a writer, teacher and editor. Her debut biography, LADY ROMEO: The Radical, Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity (S&S/Avid Reader 2020) was a finalist for a LAMBDA literary award, Judy Grahn award, and Marfield Prize in arts writing from the DC council for the arts. She is an Editor at Large at Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics, and teaches writing at New York University.
She has written on film for Bomb Magazine and theater for Guernica. Other nonfiction has appeared in in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House,Vice, The Believer, Gulf Coast, Apogee, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Rumpus, Narrative, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. Tana has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University where she taught in the Undergraduate Writing Program and was a course director for University Writing: Law and Justice and co-director for Writing American Studies. She was a finalist for the 2017 Gulf Coast Nonfiction prize judged by David Shields and has been a fellow at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residency and Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Originally from Boulder, CO. she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Contact: tana@caa.Columbia.edu
Literary Agent: Zoe Sandler, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. zsandler@sjga.com
Film rights: Rich Green, Gotham Group
Tana Wojczuk 