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Tamara MC

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Tamara MC’s Biography

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Dr. Tamara MC is a Muslim/Jewish writer who creates multidisciplinary art about her juxtaposed hybrid identities.

As a cult, child marriage, and human trafficking lived experience expert, she advocates for girls, women, and female-identifying/non-binary individuals to live free from gender-based violence and coercive control worldwide.

Her Ph.D. is in Applied Linguistics, and she researches how language manipulates vulnerable populations. Dr. MC attended Columbia University for an M.F.A. and …

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Grub Street Memoir Incubator

2021 - Memoir

Pauline Scheer Fellow

RADAR Productions: Sister Spit

2021 - Spoken Word

Touring Artist

Tucson Festival of Books

2021 - Fiction

Literary Award

University of Arizona Eller Executive Education

2021 - Nonprofit Leadership and Management

Scholarship

Center for Healthy Nonprofits

2021 - Nonprofit CEO

Scholarship

Community of Writers at Squaw Valley

2018 - Narrative Nonfiction & Memoir

Los Angeles Review of Books

2018 - Publishing

Publishing Workshop Fellow

Ragdale

2018 - Nonfiction

Ragdale in Schools Teaching Fellowship

Noepe Center for Literary Arts

2014 - Nonfiction

Nonfiction Fellow