Tam Lin Neville was born in New York City in 1944. She received her B.A. in Religion from Temple University in Philadelphia and her M.F.A. in poetry from Vermont College in 1989.
She spent four formative years living in China and Japan, studying the language and teaching, and returned to this country with a strong interest in Eastern poetry, particularly the Tang Dynasty poets of China.
Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Ironwood, Mademoiselle, The Massachusetts Review, and Sulfur. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Hungry Mind Review, and The Threepenny Review. Her interview with Tomas Transtromer was published in Painted Bride Quarterly. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Somerville Arts Council. Her chapbook Dreaming in Chinese won Calypso Press' first chapbook competition in 1995. In 1998 her book of poems, Journey Cake, was published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her second book, Triage, was published in 2010 by Cervena Barva Press and has recently been selected as "must read" by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Neville presently administers and teaches in Changing Lives Through Literature, a program designed for women and men on probation.
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