Tracy Soren
Tracy Soren, a poet and writer from Queens, New York, discovered spoken word in college and ranks it with her study abroad in Australia and Jewish cuisine as continually bettering her life. She has performed and competed at various universities, venues, conferences and events ranging from youth to activist, academic to social.
Competively, she was a 2009 semi-finalist for the Nuyorican Poets Café and a repeating member of the SUNY New Paltz Slam team, which, in her graduating year, ranked first in their region and ninth in the nation. In 2009, she was the school’s Grand Slam Champion and she currently co-coaches the team.
Tracy is also a member of the Intangible Collective, a touring group of nationally-recognized artists that aims to connect with and empower artists, audiences and communities through multiple mediums of creative expression via live performance, publications, and educational workshops. They are in the process of founding the fourth nationally-recognized slam venue in New York City and are releasing a three-part Anthology by Penmanship Books that Tracy is organizing and editing. She will be featured in the first release entitled “Static and Other Lungless Things”.
She is honored to be awarded her first book with the Cora Craig Author Award for Young Women by Penmanship Books set to release in early 2010.