Gina Tranisi, MA
As Co-Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective (NWC) and lifelong Nebraskan, Gina Tranisi (she/her) works closely with the youth spoken word poetry festival, All Writes Reserved. She leads writing workshops inside correctional facilities through Writers’ Block, an NWC-sponsored program that brings creative opportunities to incarcerated writers.
A finalist for december magazine’s 2020 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize and runner-up for the Writer’s Foundry Review 2022 Poetry Prize, Gina’s work has appeared in Rattle, The Rumpus, Young Scholars in Writing, One Magazine, and other journals. In her free time, she enjoys kitchen-dancing, car karaoke, hiking, and reading. Gina holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
As Co-Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective (NWC) and lifelong Nebraskan, Gina Tranisi (she/her) works closely with the youth spoken word poetry festival, All Writes Reserved. She leads writing workshops inside correctional facilities through Writers’ Block, an NWC-sponsored program that brings creative opportunities to incarcerated writers.
A finalist for december magazine’s 2020 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize and runner-up for the Writer’s Foundry Review 2022 Poetry Prize, Gina’s work has appeared in Rattle, The Rumpus, Young Scholars in Writing, One Magazine, and other journals. In her free time, she enjoys kitchen-dancing, car karaoke, hiking, and reading. Gina holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.