Tia Ballantine is a writer and a painter, born in Peru, who has lived in many places and taught at various universities, including University of Hawai‘i, Tampa University, and American University of Nigeria. Her paintings are in various collections, both corporate and private, and have been exhibited in New York City, Charlotte (NC), Honolulu, Oakland (CA), and elsewhere. She has published poems, short stories, essays, poetry reviews, and eight books of poems: Drawing Breath, Eve and the Archangel in Paradise, ʻAlewa Drive, The Tender Hour, The Street, When Mountains Walk, Mapping Distance, and A Mineral Fact. Her work can be found in such anthologies as Sam Hamill’s Poets Against the War; Winter Gifts (Happenstance Press, Scotland); Rounding the Corner: Poems; Desert Tracks: Poems from the Tucson Poetry Society; and Mendocino Women’s Poetry Anthology: Spirit of Place. She currently lives on the northern California coast.
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