Billie R. Tadros is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Theatre at The University of Scranton, where she also teaches in the Women’s & Gender Studies program and has directed the concentration in Health Humanities. She has also taught at Wilkes University in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her M.F.A. in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and she is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. She is the author of three books of poems, Graft Fixation (Gold Wake Press, 2020), Was Body (Indolent Books, 2020), and The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018), and three chapbooks, Am/Are I (Francis House, 2020), inter: burial places (Porkbelly Press, 2016), and Containers (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Bone Bouquet, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and others, and in anthologies including Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013), The Queer South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), and Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021).
She is currently working on a narrative research project exploring the gendered implications of traumatic injuries to self-identified women runners, and seeking to articulate a feminist injury poetics.
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