Avia Tadmor is author of the poetry collection Song in Tammuz, winner of the Tupelo Press International Berkshire Prize (forthcoming 2026).

 

Her poems, translations, and literary reviews appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, The New Republic, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Avia’s poetry manuscript, In the Tongue I Was Born To was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Book Prize and the Levis Book Prize. Her chapbook manuscript, Ruth\ˈrüth\(n.) was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award and the Black River Chapbook Competition.

 

Avia’s poetry received scholarships and awards from Yaddo, the Rona Jaffe Foundation/Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Adroit Journal’s Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program. She is a contributing editor at Tupelo Quarterly. 

 

Alongside leading workshops through various literary journals, Avia has taught writing at Columbia University, where she directed the Columbia Artist/Teachers program, promoting no-cost arts education in schools and community organizations in NYC. Currently, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. 

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Avia holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Harvard University. 

 

Born in Jerusalem, she lives in New York.