Talin
Tahajian

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Talin Tahajian is from Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, The Rumpus, Narrative Magazine, Poetry Magazine, TriQuarterly, Pleiades, West Branch, The Missouri Review, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Drift, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Oxford Poetry, AGNI, and elsewhere. She has an M.F.A. in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood, and an M.Phil. in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was funded by a Gould Studentship in English Literature. Her poems have been supported by funding from e.g. the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She’s a Ph.D. candidate in English at Yale, an assistant editor of The Yale Review, and associate editor of Mark: A Journal of Christian Poets.


Single Poem Prizes


2027 Selected, Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum), guest ed. Emily Wilson
2026 Runner-Up, Indiana Review Poetry Prize
2026 Nominated, Best New Poets via The Georgia Review
2026 Longlisted, Robert Watson Literary Prize (Poetry), The Greensboro Review
 2026 Honorable Mention, Seatonian Prize, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
2025 Nominated, Pushcart Prize via Fine Print
 2025 Shortlisted, Oxford Poetry Prize, Oxford Poetry
2025 Finalist, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, The Georgia Review
2025 Finalist, Iowa Review Award in Poetry
2025 Finalist, Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, CutBank Literary Magazine
2025 Finalist, Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program, The Adroit Journal
2024 Finalist, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, The Georgia Review
2023 Longlisted, Robert Watson Literary Prize (Poetry), The Greensboro Review
2023 Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (Poetry), The Missouri Review
2022 Shortlisted, Bridport Prize (Poetry)
2021 Longlisted, Bridport Prize (Poetry)
2018 Finalist, Iowa Review Award in Poetry
2017 Second Place, Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, selected by Eileen Myles
2016 Selected, Best New Poets (Samovar Press/Meridian), guest ed. Mary Szybist
2016 Finalist, Indiana Review Poetry Prize
2015 Finalist, Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest
2015 Semi-Finalist, “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest
2014 Selected, Best New Poets (Samovar Press/Meridian), guest ed. Dorianne Laux
2014 Finalist, Indiana Review Poetry Prize

Manuscript Prizes


2026 Semifinalist, Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press (for Pearl)
2026 Finalist, Colorado Prize for Poetry, University Press of Colorado (for Pearl)
2016 Finalist, Button Poetry Chapbook Prize
2014 Finalist, Black River Chapbook Competition, Black Lawrence Press