Tanya grew up in Northern Vermont and spent her childhood searching for partridge eggs, catching frogs, and taking sojourns with the family dog. She turned nearly every school assignment into a chance to write a story and had to be pulled away from reading time – the books of course being animal-related tales.
She holds a BFA in Writing and was a licensed Guidance Counselor for years; most of her career has officially been in human services, community development, and counseling children, but everything she does involves writing and animals whenever possible. For instance, she worked with therapy dogs in the school setting and then wrote a book about it, donating close to a thousand copies across Vermont and then the country.
Tanya is a prolific freelance writer and has published in “Vermont Magazine”, “The Canine Chronicle”, and “Northern Woodlands” among other magazines, and had creative nonfiction stories in A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers and many Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies.
Three of her children’s books have been published with Radiant Hen Publishing, the stories focusing on encouraging the idea of growing your own food and sustainable living. Her recent novel for young adults and adults, "The Starling God", was tapped for the short-list of the national Green Earth Book Awards.