Boneyard Heresies, Tina Schumann’s forth poetry collection. is an investigation of personhood as seen through the prisms of magical thinking, grief, the dreamland of memory, and the vagaries of love. These often self-deprecating and at times darkly humorous inquiries are built around a scaffolding of self-portraits, epistles, and elegies. Ultimately, the collection explores the inevitable terminus of all living things, the ironic and faulty constructs of a rapidly moving world, and one’s place in the human tribe.

Tina Schumann, a finalist in the National Poetry Series, is the author of Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press); Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition; and As If (Parlor City Press), winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is Editor of Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen), an Independent Publisher Book Award-winning anthology. Schumann’s work has received the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, runner-up status in the 2023 annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from The Missouri Review, and finalist status in the Terrain.org annual poetry contest. Her work received honorable mentions in The Atlantic and Crab Creek Review as well as an Editors’ Choice in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. She serves as a poetry editor with Wandering Aengus Press. Her poems have appeared in publications and anthologies since 1999, including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Catamaran, Cimarron Review, Diode, Hunger Mountain Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Palabra, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. She can be found at tinaschumann.com.