Wren’s Story

My personal story is under construction. For more structured types, here are my bios:

My writer/filmmaker bio:

Wren Tuatha is Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center.

Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Loch Raven Review, Digges’ Choice, The Baltimore Women’s TImes, The Green Revolution and the anthology Blood and Tears. She received a Young Authors Award in Poetry from The Courier Journal. She is a founding member of Baltimore’s Sunday Salon critique group. She wrote a stage play from her poetry, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, which she performed in Baltimore and at Towson University, thanks to grants from TU’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity. The journal Grub Street awarded her first prize for slam poetry.

Wren is principally a screenwriter, under the banner Curio Coast Productions. She wrote the feature scripts Bacca Blooms, Strands of Emily, This Is How She Steps on Snakes and My Second Simone. She is currently developing feature film scripts for collaboration with Rattle the Cage and others. She studied poetry, as well as Electronic Media and Film, at Towson University and education at University of Louisville. Her short films, “Totems of a Road-Colored Goat” and “Sparrow, Like Everyone,” are poem treatments.

My teacher bio:

Wren Tuatha is Heathcote’s Open Classroom Coordinator and Artist-in-Residence. She’s worked with kids, infants through teens, for over 25 years. She team-taught mixed age groups at University of Louisville’s Child Care Center, supervising nursing, psychology and education students.

She worked with at-risk children and families at Louisville’s Home of the Innocents and as a welfare caseworker for the State of Kentucky. She’s served 3 Unitarian-Universalist congregations as Director of Religious Education.

Wren studied education at University of Louisville and film at Towson University.