Notable Writers
Tammy Greenwood was born in rural Vermont in 1969. She grew up in Lyndonville, Vermont with her parents and her younger sister. She graduated from Lyndon Institute in 1987 and went on to win a full academic scholarship to the University of Vermont where she studied English and Creative Writing. Tammy is the author of six novels.
In 1992, she moved to Flagstaff, Arizona to pursue an MA in English from Northern Arizona University. While at NAU, she was awarded an AWP Intro to Journals Award and her short story, "The Hour of Lead," which resulted in her first publication in the Quarterly West. It was also in Flagstaff that she met her husband, Patrick Stewart.
Tammy was then accepted in the MFA program at the University of Washington where she received her MFA. After two years in Seattle, Tammy and Patrick moved to Ocean Beach, CA. Here she wrote and published her first three novels: Breathing Water, Nearer Than the Sky, and Undressing the Moon. She was awarded a Sherwood Anderson Foundation grant in 1999 and a Christopher Isherwood grant shortly after the birth of her daughter, Mikaela, in 2001. Both Nearer Than the Sky and Undressing the Moon were named Booksense 76 picks.
In 2004, her second daughter, Esmee was born, and Tammy received a national Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In 2005, Tammy and Patrick moved to the DC area. In 2008, she was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Fiction Grant and in 2007, her fourth novel, Two Rivers was an IndieBound Indie Next selection (Jan, 09). Her fifth book is titled The Hungry Season, and her sixth book is The Glittering World.
She teaches creative writing at both UCSD's Extension Program and at The Ink Spot. She and her husband, Patrick, live in San Diego, CA with their two daughters. She is also a photographer.
