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Tanya Marquardt

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Tanya Marquardt is an award-winning performer and the author of ten plays, which have been produced across Canada and the United States. Her play Transmission was published in the Canadian Theatre Review, and Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep, a play about her life as a sleeptalker, was the subject of an episode of NPR’s Invisibilia. A Hertog Fellow and graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Hunter College, Tanya splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Brooklyn, New York. Stray is her first book.

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I just finished reading Stray and loved every bit of it! I was just curious to know if you were going to write more for us about your life and how you got to the place you are at now?

Tanya Marquardt Hi Kaitlyn, thanks for reading Stray and for your kind words. When I first set out to write Stray, I actually had another book in mind, one that detai…moreHi Kaitlyn, thanks for reading Stray and for your kind words. When I first set out to write Stray, I actually had another book in mind, one that detailed my life after being a runaway, when I met my biological father and went to college and got sober. But at a certain point in the process it became clear that in order to write that book, I would need to write about being a runaway. So now that Stray is written, I am going to go back and start looking at that material. So maybe another memoir is in the works....(less)

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Tanya Marquardt There are days when the words are harder to come by then others - but I find that term 'writer's block' more anxiety inducing than the reality, which …moreThere are days when the words are harder to come by then others - but I find that term 'writer's block' more anxiety inducing than the reality, which is that some days I write more than others, and sometimes I come up against resistance to the work, which I then have to facilitate. I free-write when I feel stilted; set a timer and write without stopping or judging until the timer goes off. Then I set the free-write aside and either go back to the troublesome section, or stop and do something else. I find that getting my body into writing as an activity can get the wheels turning again. I also set aside a specific time to write, and afterwards, I try and go for a walk. This also helps me, as I can reflect on the writing session and think about what I might like to try in the next session. I find writing to be a very physical activity. (less)

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“When I left, I took everything with me...I reached under my bed where there were two leather-bound journals that had gold lettering on the front covers and that fastened with a flimsy lock. I read the lettering out loud to myself and gingerly placed the books into my backpack. Diary.”
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“I also know how little it takes to break a broken person.”
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“The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
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“We were magical and alive - we cared about music and conversation, sex and spit and blood, holding on tight to the space between youth and adulthood. When I look back at that time, my nostalgia can be blinding. Because we weren’t night dwellers, vampires who would live forever. We were a bunch of kids playing at being Lost Boys, looking for our version of Neverland.”
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