Tazi Rodrigues

About

Tazi Rodrigues (she/her) is a writer and biologist who studies movement and fresh water in both disciplines. A second-generation settler from Winnipeg, she is currently based in Ottawa on the unceded land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, where she studies lake trout ecology. 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. 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.

Selected Writing

• Ghost Tones - Kloppenburg Hybrid Grain Contest Second Place 2024
• Two Poems - The Malahat Review 2024
• glossary of the great lakes-st. lawrence watershed - flo. 2024
• catfish preserve - Canthius 2023
• moncton walrus display case - CV2 2023
• crepuscular feeding patterns - Grain Magazine 2023
• Lunar Cycle in Drought - The Fiddlehead 2023 (Pushcart nominee & National Magazine Awards nominee)
• groceries arrive at the light station - PRISM international 2023
• tadpole portraits - CV2 2022 (online - finalist for 2-Day Poem Contest People's Choice)
• figure drawing of a horseshoe crab - Arc Award of Awesomeness 2022
• I Followed the Coasts - JackPine Press 2021
• Raised Relief of a River - Funicular Magazine 2021
• under your skin, the stars - The Veg 2020
• returning home - Soliloquies Anthology 2020
• preparation - Scrivener Creative Review 2020
• Three Poems - CV2 2019
• Emergence Interview - CV2 2019

Education

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