TC Tolbert
Poet Laureate of Tucson, 2017–
TC Tolbert is a nationally certified EMT, and often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet. S/he holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is the author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014), five chapbooks of poetry, and is coeditor with Trace Peterson of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013).
Tolbert is the recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Award. In 2019, s/he was the Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day in January and was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. From 2017–23, Tolbert was the poet laureate of Tucson, Arizona, where s/he lives.