Rebecca Tantony

Rebecca Tantony is a writer known for her raw, lyrical storytelling that cuts to the core of

what it means to be human. A light through life's messier moments, she is the author of three

poetry and flash nonfiction collections, all published by Burning Eye Books. Over the years

her work has been published in Magma and Mslexia, featured on Radio Four and her

projects Seventeen (2021), Singing My Mother’s Song (2019) and All The Journeys I Never

Took (2017) were all funded by the Arts Council, U.K. Her current memoir also received

developmental DYCP funding. She has read her writing in numerous venues, including the

Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum, Southbank Centre, in Romania, Turkey,

Sweden, South Africa and America. Rebecca curates and hosts programmes for leading

creative and community events, including Bath Festival, Shambala Festival and Bristol

Harbourside Festival. Alongside her own creative practice Rebecca has taught Creative

Writing as a lecturer at Bath Spa University, both BA and MA students at Wits University

Johannesburg, at Arvon Centres, for 826 Valencia in San Francisco and for a huge variety of

schools and community organisations. She is also curator and host of the Live Poetry Book

Club, a series that platforms and celebrates black and mixed heritage writers. Her current

writing The House of Small Gods centres around motherhood and the life of working class

women- two subjects very close to home. When not doing any of the above she can be

found talking in a high pitched voice to her cat Onion, dreaming of space travel, laughing

wildly with her friends, dancing with her daughter, following the ocean, drinking coffee and

staring open mouthed at the sun, wondering how she made it this far.