Tantra Bensko
Instructor, Editor, and Writer in Berkeley, California
My relevant teaching, writing, and editing credentials: I taught fiction writing online through UCLA Extension Writing Program for sixteen years and still teach at Writers.com since 2009, as well as my Online Writing Academy (OWA.) MA from FSU, MFA from Iowa Writers Workshop. I taught at those schools as well as at Memphis State. I also edit manuscripts through OWA and Wrtiers.com and have edited with Book Butchers since 2018.
Over 100 poems plus over 200 stories in magazines and anthologies, like Carolina Quarterly, Camroc Review, Hawaii Review, California Review, Strange Little Girls, Holdfast, Zymbol, Unlikely Stories, Colorado Quarterly, Appalacia Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Florida Review, Memphis State Review. Literary novellas, chapbooks, and collections from Small Presses. Awards like from The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies and Academy of American Poets.
The Agents of the Nevermind Psychological Suspense series dramatizes exposing social engineering. Book 1, Glossolalia, won a gold medal from Readers' Favorite. Encore, Gothic/Romantic Suspense, won bronze medal from eLit Book Awards. It was listed by BestThrillers.com as one of the dozen best Thrillers of the year.
Floating on Secrets, New Adult/Romantic Suspense, won silver medal from eLit. It's about neo-psych rock musicians in Indiana while they're embroiled in the mystery of the flotation tank.
I continue my education to be the best instructor and editor, with private ongoing study as well as with certifications and diplomas in courses like Psychology, Psychology of Education, and Basics of Copyediting.