Tantra Bensko

Tantra Bensko won the gold medal for Glossolalia: Psychological Suspense from the Readers Favorite Award in the Intrigue category, silver medal for Floating on Secrets from eLit in the Romance category, and Bronze for Encore from eLit in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.

She has long taught fiction and poetry writing through online schools. She is also a manuscript editor.

With and MA from FSU and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has had hundreds of stories and poems in magazines and anthologies, plus a few chapbooks.

She lives in Berkeley.