Aliah Lavonne Tigh is an Iranian American author, teacher, artist, and their work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. The author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, out with Tram Editions, their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week, Guernica, Gulf Coast Journal, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. Tigh was a finalist for the 2025 Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship, and they have writing forthcoming in The Texas Observer. Their work has also been supported by the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Tin House Summer Workshop, The Brooklyn Rail, and others.
Tigh finds great joy in frequently collaborating with other visual artists on various projects, workshops, screenings, and installations, and they have also contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration. They hold poetry and philosophy degrees from the University of Houston and an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles. Tigh lives in Houston, Texas, and teaches at Prairie View University.
