about

Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her visual art has been shown in galleries in the Bay Area and Southern California, and has received praise from the International Luxembourg Art Prize for 2022 and 2023. Her poetry appears in journals and anthologies, most recently in KALW’s Bay Poets series. Her full-length collection, "Thawing: A Poetic Memoir" is out now from Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master's in linguistics from San Francisco State University, with training abroad in Mexico and Chile, and is currently in the MFA program for poetry at University of San Francisco. Se habla español.