Tania Runyan is the author of the poetry collections What Will Soon Take Place, Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature in 2007. Her first book of creative nonfiction, Making Peace With Paradise: An Autobiography of a California Girl, was released in 2022.
Tania’s friendly instructional guides, How to Read a Poem, How to Write a Poem, How to Write a Form Poem, and How to Write a College Application Essay, are used in classrooms across the country. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Image, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, Saint Katherine Review, and the recent anthologies Taking Root in the Heart: A Collection of Thirty-Four Poets From “The Christian Century” and Christian Poetry in America Since 1940. Tania has been awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press. She lives with her family in Illinois.