Tazi Rodrigues

About

Tazi Rodrigues (she/her) is a writer and biologist who studies movement in both disciplines. A second-generation settler from Winnipeg, she is currently based in Ottawa on the unceded land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. She has also lived on several islands (Vancouver Island, Porphyry Island, and Tio'tia:ke, or the Island of Montreal). She placed second in the 2023 Kloppenburg Hybrid Contest for her essay on learning Portuguese and listening to fish, and her essay on tadpoles and aunthood was a finalist for the 2024 National Magazine Awards in the One-of-a-Kind Storytelling category. Her creative work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, Contemporary Verse 2, and The Malahat Review, and her chapbook, I Followed the Coasts, was published by JackPine Press in 2021.

Education

MSc. Biology
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
2021-2023BSc. Biology
McGill University
Montreal, QC
2017-2021