TRACEY MCTAGUE is a visual artist and poet born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. She utilizes a language informed by ecofeminism and the oral traditions of the seanchaí. Gathering from cross-cultural cosmogonic myths from our collective unconscious, she harnesses the micro protests of our ancestral mycorrhizae as weaponized forms of macro survival.
McTague received her education in fine art and film at Parsons and The New School. She worked for Michael Moore on The Awful Truth, harassing CEOs via the art department. She has also worked for the Association for Cultural Equity and in the Alan Lomax archive, helping to preserve and prepare his vast collection of music for the Library of Congress while contacting all living descendants for ancestral reparations. She currently works for the Irish peacemaker Prof. Padraig O’Malley, who specializes in the problems of divided societies such as South Africa, the middle east and Northern Ireland. She also created a photography workshop for an 11-nation secular collective seeking to help empower European Muslim youth through artistic self-expression and socio-political documentation.
She was the art director of the literary magazine Lungfull! for 12 years, and hosted the Battle Hill Reading Series for 5. Her art, essays, reviews, and poetry have been in The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, among others. She is author of Super Natural and Marginal Utility, both published by New Orleans’ Trembling Pillow Press.