Thadra Sheridan

THADRA SHERIDAN is a poet, essayist, columnist, teacher, and performer from Minneapolis, MN.  She has been published in the Star and Tribune, the Skyway News, Moxie Magazine, Rattle, and several anthologies. She has won awards for her writing from the Faulkner Society and the National League of American Pen Women. Her work has been featured on the final episode of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Minnesota Public Radio, and venues across the country, including San Quentin Penitentiary, where she scored serious points talking about her terrible taste in men. She has been a member of four National Poetry Slam Teams, three from Minneapolis, and one from San Francisco, which placed 6th at the 2005 National Poetry Slam. She featured at ForWord Girls, the first ever all-female spoken word festival in San Francisco and won LA's first all-female Redhots Slam. She was the recent recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Verve grant for spoken word.  If it has hurt, she will find a way to laugh at it.