Currently based in Texas, Tammy Gomez is an award-winning poet, multimedia performer, and playwright/director whose work bridges art, activism, and community. Named Best Poet of Austin by the Austin Chronicle in 1997, Tammy has performed her poetry across the United States, as well as in Mexico and Nepal.

Her poems and essays have been published in numerous anthologies, including Yellow Medicine Review (2009) and Women in Nature: An Anthology (2014). She is profiled in Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press, 2003) and featured in Voices from Texas, a PBS documentary celebrating Latino poets in Texas.

Tammy is the founder of Sound Culture, a north Texas–based intermedia production lab dedicated to fostering collaboration among artists of diverse disciplines. Sound Culture partners with museums, theaters, and arts organizations to promote creative expression and social justice through stage performances, spoken word innovation, interactive design, and neighborhood engagement programs.

Her artistic collaborations include work with the Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin), Santa Fe Playhouse, Oak Cliff Cultural Arts Center (Dallas), WordSpace (Dallas), Arts on Tap, Inc. (Fort Worth), Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin), and Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth.

Tammy earned her B.A. in Psychology and Pre-Legal Studies from Goucher College in Maryland, where she later received the Goucher College Alumnae/i Award for Excellence in Public Service (2010). She studied under celebrated Chicano literary figures including Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jose Montoya, Raul R. Salinas, and Octavio Solis.

Her residencies include the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Texas A&M–Kingsville, and Headlands Center for the Arts (California). Her work has been supported by grants from Humanities Texas, the Ford Foundation, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Puffin Foundation, and other arts and cultural organizations.

In theater, Tammy premiered her first full-length play, She: Bike/Spoke/Love, on World Car-Free Day in 2007. Her one-woman show, Saliendo Abierta (Emerging Open), was performed at the Out of the Loop Festival and Rose Marine Theater before being broadcast on Fort Worth Community Television. She has taught poetry and performance workshops nationwide and curated the Poetry Tent for the Texas Book Festival for six consecutive years.

A lifelong learner and environmental advocate, Tammy has lived in the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, completed a Permaculture Design course, and trekked to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. An avid urban gardener and committed cyclist, she has not owned a car in over eight years—living her art and values every day.