T. J. McGowan

T.J. McGowan, aka The Everyday Bite, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, and filmmaker/producer based in the Bronx. Winner of the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) 2025 for Spoken Word, T.J.’s taken the stage as a featured artist with his spoken word all over the tristate, and his written work has been featured in Collective Unrest, Vamp Cat Mag, Flash Fiction Mag, United: Red, BX Writers, and Mojave Heart, to name a few. His poem, I Am Not Her Bones, was awarded the best spoken word poem at the 2019 Word Masters Poetry Gala and subsequently published in the anthology War Crimes Against the Uterus. He has had two chapbooks, Anatomy of Us: a dissection (Between Shadows Press), and God is a Woman (Querencia Press) published in more recent years. His spoken word album, I Wear Another Man’s Name, dropped in 2021, while his debut fictional novel, Timeless Gardens & Other Beautiful Miseries (iiPublishing), released in Spring 2022. A Funeral of Strangers Gathered over a Body of Thought, a full-length poetry collection, will arrive in Winter 2027. With whatever time is left, he collaborates as one half of the meditative metal duo, Subtle Bodies, blending spoken word and trip-rock. Their two albums, It Is Love and 528, are available wherever you stream your music. And contrary to popular belief, don’t let the stage name fool you, he doesn’t bite… well, not always…