Davis, Tanya

Biography

Tanya Davis (CAN) is a poet and singer-songwriter. She is a two-time winner of the CBC National Poetry Face-Off as well as the Canadian Winner of the 2008 Mountain Stage New Song Contest. She burst onto the music scene in 2006 and has already released her third album. In 2009, she collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce the video How to Be Alone. It has since been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Vancouver Film Fest, The Worldwide Short Film Festival and the Video Poetry Festival. The video became a viral hit, receiving over three million views on YouTube. Davis resides in Nova Scotia where she was recently named the Mayor’s Poet Laureate for Halifax. She presents At First, Lonely a book of poetry at WordFest.

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