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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk is a writer, performer and activist working in Montreal and Toronto. She has been published across North America with credits that include the Lambda-Award winning Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press), Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan Books), THIS Magazine, Fireweed Feminist Quarterly, Broken Pencil, Clamor, NOW Magazine, HOUR, $pread, Herizons, and ssspread.com (R.I.P). Her work is forthcoming in the anthologies No Such Thing: Writings by Jewish Women of Mixed Families, Ain’t Yer Sister and Raking the Moon.
For more than three years, Tara-Michelle wrote the column “Lydia Lane is Not My Name” for Trade: Queer Things Magazine. Her one-act play, Why: a drunken comedy in one act, was read at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s annual Rhubarb Festival.
A former and founding member of performance troupes Trash & Ready and Black Licorice Theory, Tara-Michelle has performed at Mayworks Festival of Working People in the Arts, Toronto Small Press Bookfair, Hotel Canzine’s Room of Sin, Festival of Anarchy (Montreal) and Ladyfest in Toronto and Ottawa.
Tara-Michelle organized the political spoken-word series Rebel Girl and
has a lengthy involvement with CKLN-FM, voted best community radio station
in Canada. Her activist resumé includes direct action anti-gentrification
work and organizing for the rights of sex workers. She was also on the collective
for the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair.