Betsy Fogelman Tighe

Betsy Fogelman Tighe

Betsy Fogelman Tighe has poems published in over a dozen literary magazines, including The Seneca Review, the Louisville Review, and TriQuarterly 74, for which she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.  She was the third place winner of the Oregon State Poetry Association New Poets Prize in 2010 and was the winner of the first Recoursos/Discovery Award, 1995.  She has received an NEH Institute Grant and Florida Humanities Countil Grant for summer studies.  Fogelman Tighe holds an M.A. in Secondary English Education and is a teacher-librarian in Portland, OR where she blissfully lives with her two outstanding teens.