Tijanna Eaton is a Black butch writer whose work appears in Honey Literary, Noyo Review, Yellow Arrow Vignette, slips slips, and Panorama Journal. She was a 2021 Unicorn Authors Club Alumni Award recipient, a 2023 Rooted & Written Fellow, a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2024 Soros Justice Fellow, the 2024 Best of the Net nonfiction judge, and a 2025 Money for Women nonfiction judge. She has served on the Five Keys Schools and Programs Board of Directors since 2006 and has been Board Chair since 2021. Tijanna is a trained sanctuary coach and program director for the Bolt Cutters Cohort in partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club.
At Mesa, Tijanna worked on her novel about two homeless Black butch lesbians who, together, survive the crack epidemic in 1990s San Francisco. You can learn more about Tijanna here.

