Tanya Žilinskas is a first generation American living in Northern California. She is working on a novel about early internet hoaxes and the ethics of documentary filmmaking, and a California Gothic novel-in-stories set in a surreal version of Marin County. 

Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications like The Sun, EPOCH, Chicago Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Porter House Review, The Florida Review, Lunch Ticket, and X-R-A-Y, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50.

Tanya’s writing has received support from Bread Loaf, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Writing By Writers, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and the University of San Francisco. She’s a former senior reader for Electric Literature‘s Recommended Reading, an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, and the former editor-in-chief of Invisible City. She earned her MFA from the University of San Francisco, where she was awarded the post-graduate teaching fellowship. Tanya is the founder and host of the BAIT Reading Series at the Sausalito Public Library.

She is represented by Heather Carr at The Friedrich Agency.